Thought it would be fun to share what's blooming in our gardens today. Here are a few of mine from yesterday. Please chime in and share your pretties?

One lonely, but magnificent iris down by the rock wall:


a 2 year old clematis -
unknown cultivar as I bought it on close-out at the grocery store:


free rhododendron from a plant swap in Connecticut -
the nursery where the swap took place donated this plant:


I don't want to clog up your service loaders so I'll post a few more in a follow-up post.

Now get out there and take pictures! (puhleeze?)

A few more lovelies to share with you this morning:

Suncatcher Coral Prism petunia - this is so new that nothing comes up on a google search. Wish I had gotten more when I picke this one up, but it wasn't in bloom yet and you never can tell how true a tag picture is...:


from my blue garden - centaurea montana:


and a volunteer baby Japanese maple - found it under a butterfly bush and potted it up:


Who's next?

plants 'n pots Those are beautiful the unknown cultivar you bought at store is very pretty wish I had one.I will try to post two of mine

Hope they come through.
Jimmy

Hey Jimmy ~

Those are nice rose of sharons! My 2 are just starting to leaf out here and won't bloom until about the 3rd week in August. I also have a white one - planted it in the memorial garden for our cat, Cookie - she was white and black, so I planted a mostly white garden for her.

My father calls these nuisance plants - now I know why. I'm forever pulling out seedlings in the grass - the mower just clips them, but they keep going and going... like the energizer bunny!

Do you find that in Texas also?

Oh how lovely....

I have a super petunia that is blooming like crazy though I don't have a great pic of it...



I am amazed at my Delta Yellow pansies. These things BLOOM!



but I am most excited about my heirloom tomatoes...Stupice variety developed in czechoslavakia

wow those are looking excellent!! I don't really have much right now but do have a rose bush (my first one!!) getting ready to bloom it's first rose! it was a little one and still is pretty small and didn't even have leaves and now it's full of leaves and buds!! even though a stupid dog had to pee on it :-( hopefully all this rain will wash it off. can't get pics of it right now but will try to in the next day or so :-) I also got some irises somebody sent me from another great gardening site (of course not greater than this one!! lol) but they are just leaves right now. :-)

Great plants, Fernie! How great that your tomato has blooms on it already! My cherry tomatoes reseed in the garden every year - in the 11 years we have lived in this house, I've only had to re-purchase them once, can you believe that?!? But... it does take a while for the seedlings to appear, so I am a bit behind than if I were to by a sizable plant at the store. I really don't mind - we usually have a great amount of the little tomatoes just about when everything else is winding down.

My icicle pansies also reseeded themselves this year. They were another great purchase - got them on sale (2 inch pots for 11 cents each) at Lowes the first year they were open - they overbought and had way too many left - of course the next year they had NONE! I let them go to seed when the weather got too hot for them, and then in the fall I moved the plants around to where I wanted them to grow in the spring - love them!

MissJamie - so glad you can grow roses, and that they have buds on them! I tried to grow them a few times here, but the deer eat them down to the quick everytime - thorns and all!!! I gave my last 2, which were hanging on by a thread to my father - he doesn't have any critters who eat plants there - one of the bushes is growing very nicely but the other did not make it. Can't wait to see your pictures!

Who's next with pictures? Love to see them!

hey lynne! yea I'm glad I can grow them too...I didn't even have to do anything to them and they grew! I just had to water them every now and then I didn't even feed them!! lol. I read somewhere I think weezie was talking about it here that putting tomato cages with the points up around your rose bushes might help keep the deer off the rose bushes. we have deer up here and they can come on and try to eat my plants if they want to cuz we have a whole living room full of guns and it'd help my dad because he wouldn't have to go out hunting to find them....they'd be in his own front yard!! and plus we'd have a whole freezer full of yummmmmmyyyyy deer meat!! lol

This is my latest little treasure - I really didn't think anything would come of this damaged plant one of the tenants brought to me:

I give up - I'm having a hard time posting pictures tonight. Part of this might be my fault.

I have a page in my outlook that keeps the records of my pictures that are posted to image shack.

I changed it to text only - ha ha!

That means I have to go and look for the pictures on 'my images' at shack.

Ok, so it's not flowers.. but this is the view from my deck, of my back/side yard..



It's raining now, so my camera's not taking the best photos for me. Or, it's the photographer who can't handle the camera steadily enough..lol. Either way, I'll take other yard photos later.

Meg

Meg - love your set-up! It's so nice and tidy!

Heres some of my pics...

Around the pond


Some Roses


New flower beds


G-Mom

Ginger is coming up(that little tree in front is a "pink honeysuckle tree")


Patio entrance


More Roses


G-Mom

soooo beautiful g-mom!!

G-mom... Ooooooh lala!!!

Very pretty! Love your pond - and meant to comment on how cute your froggies are in the other post. I didn't know that honeysuckle also grows in a bush style? I have goldflame which is a vine growing up one of the support beams of my 2nd story deck. Dontcha just LOVE the smell?!? Do you pull out the stamens and suck on them? I had never heard of that before, but my husband said he always did that as a kid, and showed our daughter how to do it.

Just was given four purple Rose of Sharon will only post one as they all look alike also was given the following Katie
Ewe
Aralia
the names are what I was told they were. Eating tomato's and peppers. Sure good to be back online.
Jimmy

Ummmmmm, G-mom would you adopt me so I can come live at your house. Promise to spend all my time in the garden.

That's an oasis. A veritable garden of eden. In another words I LOVE IT!!!!!

Would you mind comming to Virginia and working some of that magic up here?

Well, here's my PANSIES, again..


And just noticed my new columbine is starting to bloom-


My one hosta is getting quite tall!


And, ok, they're not in the ground yet, since I just bought them.. but technically, they are in bloom...


Meg

I've been eating radishes out of my garden this week. This is the first time I've planted radishes. They're so easy to grow, and mature fast. It's fun.

I LUV your Pansies,Meg They are just as cute as the pumpkins

Oooooh,JV...I am so jealous. I adore Rose of Sharon!

WE sure do!!! God's purest nectar

Me either. When I saw it at the nursery and found out what it was you can bet your "sweet bippy" that I grabbed one real quick!

Man...I would LOVE to travel around building gardens Wouldn't THAT be the perfect job!

I had a wonderful suprise when I woke this A.M. My "heart-shaped" bulb garden EXPLODED in blooms! These are the "Rain Lillies",not the one I posted in "Mystery Plants" Looky,Looky...


G-Mom

That is so fantastic. I loved it when it was just the green. Now of course you are leaving me without words.

That would be the perfect job for you. You would spread beauty and loving friendship everywhere you went.

Meg ~ your pumpkins are looking WONDERFUL this year! Great pictures of really nice plants! Your hosta looks sooooo healthy, and is doing exactly what it should. Even with the deer munching on mine each year, I cut them back by 1/2 and gave the other 1/2 to my dad - he lined his entire backyard with the pieces! And mine have grown so big again after just having divided them - you can't even tell that I took any away. Next time I'll have to cut back more!

G-mom - that is SUCH A PRETTY LILY! Do you know the latin name for it? How long will it bloom for you?

Here's another flower that's blooming for me today - just one lonely flower on the bush - but boy is it delish!!! The smell is out of this world! It's a french lilac.

How pretty G~Mom....you are making me want a pond really bad! I just have so many projects started right now...I have to get some of them done before I tackle anything else...and I wouldn't have a clue as to where to start with a pond!

Lynne, I cut that hosta in half, well sorta half, last year. It was more like 1/3,and 2/3..lol. One plant is smaller, but still growing nice, with a tall flower stalk. The big one has multiple tall stalks, and is filling out, and up! I was so afraid I was going to kill it by cutting it in half.. but it lived! I know I was told they are hardy.. but I have generally been disasterous with plants/flowers.

Meg

G~mom,
I absolutely LOVE those lillies...
So delicate!!!

There are many species of Rain lilies, also known as Zephyr lilies, which belong the the genus Zephyranthes

Ok, a few more...

Alyssum


daylily


mini red roses


mini yellow roses


muscari, finally getting a tiny stalk on it..


One more post to follow..
Meg

Purple clematis


White clematis, really taking off!


purple & white together-


That's it, for now...

Meg

Ok, one more.. these aren't "in bloom" but they are growing like .. weeds. But no, seriously, they are my

purple ninebark (diabolo)


And my biggest forsythia, and these didn't bloom.. I think they are in too much shade on the back side of the house. *sigh*


Meg

Wow, you go Meg. Heavens your going to have your entire yard landscaped by this summer lol.

Me i'm still plodding along like the "old grey mare" one square foot at a time lol. Only thing that is blooming here are the snapdragons and they just don't give up. I really like them. And I'm glad they like the clay.

TK, alot of these were planted last year, between Mother's Day & Autumn. But the mini roses were new, the wildflower (alyssum) was a can of seeds given to me for my birthday, and the 2 cletmatis & peony of course I got a couple weeks ago, as well as 2 new columbines.

I wish I had more yard.. just so I could plant more stuff! LOL.

Meg

Two of the zinnia had buds on them. One a can just barely see the center of. Looks like it is going to be bright red. I can't wait to see it. I've never grown them before so I am looking forward to it.

The moss roses are getting bigger but still no buds. I am impatient to see them flower they are so pretty.

Oy, you're not gonna believe this.. but I just bought more plants at Southern States. I got marigolds to put in with my veggies. I read it's good for confusing the bugs..lol.







There were 21 plants.. I put them out, while it was thundering away..lol. I finished the last one, stood up, and saw a big flash of lightening! I went in pretty quick then..lol.

Meg

Meg - your veggies look soooooooo healthy!
Can't wait to see them when they are ready to pick!

Am I too late to jump in on this thread? We just got back from being away a few days, and was 'Surprised' by these (what I think are) Surprise Lilies! Looks like one of my yuccas sent up a shoot - not sure about the others - these guys need to be thinned out!

(Thumbnails clickable)




Mary

Love the lilies but I think I would be putting up a sound barrier between me and that school lol. But then I'm home all day. And have the greyhound busses comming and going from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m., and school busses, and public transportation lol.

Mary - it's never too late to post on this thread. I'm hoping it's like the energizer bunny and keeps going and going and going...
Great pictures of really nice lilies too!

I was shocked and thrilled to see that my 2 year old yucca has also sent up a flower spike. I bought it with a cousin up in Connecticut 2 summers ago, and her 2 bloomed for her last summer, while my 1 did not. Here's a picture of mine from earlier today.



Almost looks like a pale flamingo got caught in there!

LOL T, it's actually a reeeeeeally small school district, and probably less than 100 kids go to the school. Besides, they kind of keep me on task -- oh, they're at lunch? Oh, they're going home? Kind of my environmental clock LOL!

Wow Lynne, gorgeous yucca. Mine are ugly LOL! I thought about sending mine far, far away, but then read that they will multiply like crazy, just from even moving them, so fageddaboudit! They'll stay, but I plan on moving the lilies. They're kind of tucked away on the far side of the yard, and I thought they might make a great accent to the wild rose we have growing that's now completely dead (leaves and all! Strange?) but bloom before the lilies send up their stalks. Hmmm. ANYway, I never saw a yucca with leaves like that, gorgeous!

I'll be back, as soon as I get something else blooming!

I saw a bud on the moss rose today so you know I'll be out there shortly after sunrise to see if it blooms tomorrow. I am so childish about this garden project. lol. Maybe I've started my second childhood a little early hummmmmmmm?

I gotta say, I'm right there with ya. Sure is fun, isn't it?

I can't wait to see what the yucca looks like in full bloom I'm still waiting for mine to do something :p

The lillies are lovely,Mary I hope this thread goes on and on and on! I love to see everybodies "pretties"!

G-Mom

Well the zinnia stem has bent so maybe tomorrow? The moss rose bud is still there and still a bud. I know they aren't suppose to like a lot of fertilizer but it is so tempting when I get impatient lol.

OK...just 3 more and I promise I'll stop(well at least for today,LOL)

Aloe blooming for 5th time this year


Well-trained hubby


Check out this storm cloud from last night


G-Mom

Wow, G-Mom I love your pics! Don't stop posting them!! Can you tell me (this has been driving me crazy lately) what the flowers are in the 2nd picture, 3 posts up? I think they might be daylilies - but yaknow, i don't know. I see them everywhere here and they're gorgeous (though I haven't seen them in white) but I dont know what they are! Is it just my imagination, or are they growing in a heart shape?

I'm so jealous of your aloe growing outside!!! And your pond!!! and...and...and...LOL!

Mary

ME TOO! ME TOO!!!
It looks sooooooo healthy!

Your gardens are so clean and neat G-mom! Bet your house is too - LOL!!!
The more I see the pics of your rain lilies, the more I want some. Did you ever find out the latin name for them?

Please, sir... I'd like some more...
pics that is!

G-mom, your photos are just lovely. That aloe looks cool!! I've never seen one flower before. And I thought those other flowers were in a circle, but now that it was mentioned, I went back & looked again, and yea, they do look like they are in a heart shape! You are so imaginitive!! I love all your photos.. and the storm cloud looks awesome!

Meg

Yep...it's a heart shape. I had a gazillion mini bulbs and tossed them all together in a heart shaped hole. Turns out there are 3 different types of bulbs.



Zephyranthus

I love out-of-the-ordinary stuff...I have Willys peeking out of hanging plants,a ceramic pig laying on the edge of my green bean bed(smiling of course),froggies and turtles hiding in different beds and I just put a mirror(one of those that you put on a bedroom door)on the lattice in one corner of my yard,it reflects back the pond and all of the plants and makes it look like a private path to another garden

G-Mom

Very cute graphic, G-mom!

Thanks for the latin name - yet another plant I'm going to have to find!

How about it you take some pictures of your fun garden items and we call that thread "garden accessories"?!?

This way we can have those posts all in one place, instead of everyone starting their own, when they want to share pictures of their finds.

A few flowers from my gardens today in the blasting hot sun! It's hard to take good pictures in the heat and humidity with this cheapo camera, but these were the best I could do.

honeysuckle - lonicera heckrotti goldflame
growing up the support beam of our deck




some verbena that needs to fill out some


some gazania that also needs to fill out some, but looks mighty nice by the bathtub pond

Absolutely GORGEOUS! WTG,Lynne

I LUV your "goldflame honeysuckle"

Gmom! You should post some pictures of the plants i sent you are they still around?

~Phoebe

Those are AWESOME pictures!

Here's 2 I took today...

I hate cactus..........
...but it's got a pretty flower!








Cindy Jo

Ok, so I moved a bunch of mulch, compost, and topsoil today, that was in 40lb. bags, and had a bunch of dead looking lawn. Sooooo, I dug it up, and ran to the nursery, and got more flowers to plant..lol.

I got a pretty orange zinnia-


A "summer wine" yarrow-


A salvia "red hot sally"


And a hybrid sage


I also got 2- 4packs of little marigolds, and put them all together-


Also, one more wildflower blossom today, a "bird's eye"


Meg

Wow Meg - you done good!
Such vibrant and cheerful colors!
Aren't you glad that the bags left the deadspot in your lawn?!? You put it to great use!

Love that zinnia, and I used to not be a fan of orange flowers so much. This year I got a few orange gazanias in the 4 packs I bought that hadn't bloomed yet - I'm loving them by my bathtub pond.

Did you know that yarrow can be very invasive? I dug up a small start of a white one at a roadside years ago, and it took me about 5 years to totally get rid of it. It has a very long tap root that does not want to go away, plus the seeds scatter everywhere.

The sages and salvias will also reseed all over the place, but I don't mind that so much. I just look for the baby plants, and move them where I'd like them - or share with family and friends.

Keep sharing those great pictures of great plants!

I thought I'd read somewhere before that yarrow was invasive, but couldn't resist this summer wine color. It's got kinda burgundy colored flowers on it. When I took it out of the pot it was in, it was practically rootbound, a huge ball of roots around it. I didn't see a taproot, just the mass of stringy roots growing around the pot. Maybe it's a different variety? I could hope..

Meg

Hehehehe, we get so attached so fast. It's adorable.

no Unfortunately they didn't survive the winter,noones did

The new flowers are sooooo purdy,Meg! Ummmmm,if you decide to collect seeds from that "birds eye" I sure would love to trade you something for some seeds

G-Mom

wow gmom that's weird about the iris not surviving the winter o.O up here, the iris go thorugh a deep freeze. Maybe that was the problem. no dormancy?

~Phoebe

I was THRILLED to see my very first raspberry! It was yummy, too!



One more left on it LOL I can't wait until it starts really growing!

Mary

I posted a pic when this was buds...



and when this plant was just few flowers



and when this super petunia had one lone bloom

Thanks, Fernie - I needed the encouragement! One of these days my raspberries will be so big, I'll need a wide angle lens to get a picture

This is what I found when I went out to my vegetable garden today.

Oh, my.... I would have been running in the other direction faster than a speeding bullet - don't know how you stood there to take pictures! Hope the kitty kept a safe distance! What kind of snake is that?

OMG, That thing was HUGE!!!! RUN AWAY!!!!

woah!! that's a pretty snake it looks like a black snake to me but I'm not sure. my brother had some friends over to camp out last night and they found a snake that looked like that but it was like 3 or 4 feet long!!

Two of the zinnia are blooming, the nastrium are blooming like crazy, the marigolds are blooming and the glads are just sitting there lol. Oh well.

I planted my glads in March and they are just now starting to bloom. Hang in there

Everything else sounds just "PEACHY"!

G-Mom

Yep other than the transplant oopses everything has had at least one plant survive ... so far. I have 12 buds on the moss roses and I keep waiting and waiting and waiting but they are taking their time. lol

It's a pilot snake and it's not dangerous. I keep my distance but I don't kill them. I know I've told here before about the black snake that was living in my attic that my husband and the men working here knew about but didn't tell me. I found out when I was home alone. Yikes!!

tk, My glads haven't bloomed yet either. I thought it was all the rain but if yours haven't bloomed either, wonder what's up.

my new garden gate





this is the first time the hollyhocks have bloomed. They come up, stay green, turn yellow and die. Maybe all this rain has given them what they need.

I've never had glads before so I have no clue. I figured my soil was probably short something or the grass roots got in there and were bothering them. I have a lot of bermuda grass and I don't dare dig it all out at one time with that steep of a slope. So I dig it up when I am ready to plant in a given area. Which means it is constantly comming up in the beds I have already cleared.

Sheri, your hollyhocks are beautiful!! I love them, and I got seeds from my mom's neighbor, but so far, nada. Well, seedlings, but they aren't really growing. :rolleyes:

Meg

My Glads haven't bloomed yet either... But I did plant them kinda late... Like early May... but they're all nice and leafy!!! I have planted them as late as July and had blooms all the way into September...

I grew gladiolas for the first time last summer. I put them in pretty late. The ones up by the mailbox on the street were gorgeous! They did not come back this year - I was too lazy to lift them last fall. The ones I planted down by the shed did not grow last year, but have been growing nice green leaves so far this year. It's been an interesting experience so far.

Sheri your Hollyhocks are ereal pretty. If you have some seeds I would do almost anything to get some of them. Those deep wine ones are as pretty as I have ever seen.
Jimmy

My glads are STILL IN THE BAG!!!! hahaahaa

Hey Sheri, all of your pictures are great....
*Welllllllll except for that snake, I'd be
runnin' for them thar hills my self!!!*
But, the GATE looked realllllllllly neat...
Where'd you get it????

Ok, lots of wildflowers are showing up finally.. with LOTS more to follow, but here's some of the ones that are blooming now..











Meg

Cool, we're back! Here's my only new bloom this weekend



There are so many yuccas there in that little tight spot, but again it wasn't cared for, so I don't know if they'll come up or not..time will certainly tell!

Mary

Oh, and I um... got another clematis. It's not planted yet. I need another trellis.


My veggies today-


Kinda closeup of the bean vines-


And close up of a real actual broccoli floret!!


Meg

Great lookin' veggies you got there Meg!!!
Congrats!!!
Very nice still..
Good job!!!!

Mary, are the flowers' on the "YUCCA's" red?
Just curious, aren't they daylillies...??
Can't see too good, small picture????

Weeeeezieeeeeeeeee

The smaller ones on bottom are 'surprise' lilies, but above them is the yucca bloom...click on the pic, it'll open to a bigger one

Ugh, or not! LOL! Lemme fix
Okay, all fixed up now...NOW it'll open to a bigger one! LOL!
Meg, I'm so jealous of your veggies!!!

Meg,
Photobucket must be down at this minute.....
I can't see your photo's and the page
takes forever to load...
*on froggies one too, so that's why I think
it's down.*
but Mary, I do see your Yucca now, it blended
in with the lilies, I was like, I haven't ever
seen a red yucca before....

But it bloomed NICELY!!!
That's a gorgeous looking stalk of flowers there.

It's finally back up. Yea, I think I broke photobucket last night with all my uploads..lol. (Ya know, it's free, but I signed up as paying member for a year, because I umm.. had too many pics!) *lots of laughing graemlins*

Meg

They did it they finally did it. The moss roses have started to bloom. Just two at a time so far but I expect they'll get with it as the season progresses. The zinnia are blooming too. Will I be ostrisized if I say I'm not thrilled with mine? The colors are dusty and lackluster. I think I need to start paying very close attention to which companies I buy seeds from. Wallyworld is getting to be a "yucky" bargain. The snapdragons seem to be thinking about one more blooming extravaganza but according to everything I've read they should be heading for their dormant period. Any one know more information on the miniature snapdragons?

I don't know much about snapdragons except they are pretty. ??? sorry.

I posted this pic earlier




now look at 'em

Those are GORGEOUS,Fernie

Wish I had some info for you,TK,but snapdragons don't like me

G-Mom, They would love you if it were a little cooler down there lol. I am tempted since the miniatures appear to do well in the shade outside to try some indoors. Where the a/c might keep them from going into a summer dormant period.

I'll think about it some more and have another cup of coffee and then probably think and then.....

OK so I'm procrastinating, it's hot out there lol.

I have felt left out here because my camera has been messed up and I couldn't post any pics! So...NOW YOU ARE IN TWOUBLE....
Okay..I feel a little better now.......

WOW...those turned out a WHOLE lot bigger than I expected...sorry! :rolleyes:

ok I've been admiring all the beauties here so now it's time to post a couple of mine! lol ...
my first rose...can't remember what kind it is right off though...this is my first ever rose bush...never grown any before!
daylily that lady down the street gave to me...not a good pic though...to bad they only last about a day!
pretty purple petunia
and that's it for now!

hmmmm wonder why my rose pic showed up smaller??? how do I fix it?

Everything looks so pretty ya'll! I really like your "balloonflowers",Vanessa(I've got them too )

Here is what I just found out back...


And not too far away on another vine...


G-Mom

I love the little watermelon that is so cute.

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/daisey_diesel/my_photos

that is the link to my garden photos! I thought I would share what I have blooming! Also you can see my pond I built that started my whole gardening fetish! I had a lilly bloom on the lilly pads this morning wish I had waited to take the photos today so it could be included in the picture!

Karrie,your pictures are great but I didn't find the pond.

JV, this is the first year the holyhocks have bloomed. Some people on the board sent me some seeds that I put out this spring but they didn't bloom this year. When I get some seeds I'll send you some.

It should be in the first 2 photos of my pretty flowers! Showes that way on my browser! And Thank you very much! I have done alot of planting this year! We had nothing and bought the house a year ago this fall! So this is my first summer to plant flowers I did some Shrubs and such last fall and a butterfly bush which has gotten way outta controll its huge! Gonna have to transplant it! Hate to though afraid I will kill it! Gonna wait till fall when I dead head it and wait a lil for it to go dormat then try to transplant it!

I saw the pond and thought it was purty. My hubby has just installed one for us and I am trying to get it landscaped. Can't wait to see the finished product!

Dianna

I wanted to landscape mine a bit more but it is in a location that is full of rock and large peices of concrete from the footers of the house! THat is the main reason the pond is there, it was a mess when we moved in right there! Had to make it somewhat pretty at a minimal cost since we were renting to own! for the first year I used the black liner you get at wal mart just plastic really! As soon as we got the house in our name, I went and bought a real pond liner, pump and all that stuff! Its a total of 3 year old now! my fish are huge!

I see more "Balloon Flowers" I think they are just so cute!

The petunias are beautiful, Karrie, and I love the bucket you have them in.

And needless to say...I LOVE your pond!

Good Job

Here's my addition for the day. Don't mind the little 'greenies' I forgot to pull before snapping the pic LOL!



Almost there...


Hopefully these will be popping in a week or so - I'm so excited!

I love the yellow roses. That is great Mary. Really great job.

Thank you for the praise! I have lots of metal buckets with flowers in them! I love that rustic look! I found some tiny little ones today at an auction when I bought them the auctioneer said what good are those gonna be.......I said flowers.......he said your gonna put holes in perfectly good buckets to plant flowers in......... ! I said I sure am! lol Hope that you all had a wonderful weekend so far! Tomorrow I go ride Thomas the tank engine! What fun!