YIKES! We have an eggplant!

Our little backyard garden has been a lot of fun.  It took us a year to get things to grow to the point of yielding any fruit, but it's been a fun year, regardless!  Last fall I planted several things that I got from the nursery...  Cherry tomatoes, red bell pepper, cauliflower, squash, and a "mystery plant" that was missing it's identifying tag.  It was too late in the season for them to prosper, but most of them survived the mild winter and they are finally sprouting some fruit!

Our "mystery" plants have been a lot of fun...  The nursery guessed that it was yellow squash...but it didn't look like that to me.  More recently, the gardener who planted our orange tree guessed that it was eggplant.  The plants are growing well with a lot of purple flowers on them...but no fruit.  finally, I decided to do a little internet research - and indeed the pictures of eggplant plants look just like our "mystery" plants!  Later that same day, I was out watering the garden and then I saw it... 

An eggplant!

And Eggplant #2

Now, how cool is that?