“Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.” – Neil Armstrong.
I had fun reading all your guesses for Sunday’s mystery photo. Seems food ruled the day and actually food was a sort of right guess. But the photo wasn’t pancakes or waffles with blueberries and strawberries, but after reading your guesses, I was ready to head for Waffle House and attack some waffles. Then we had honey buns and pizza. Some of you were ready to grill out with hamburgers, hot dogs and steak. Mary and Briana stuck with the healthier foods and said a tomato slice. We just ate our first tomato off our plants tonight for supper, but I didn’t take a picture. Nothing like a homegrown tomato. Our tomato slices went real well with that bacon Amy guessed. Love a bacon and tomato sandwich.
There was only one guess that wasn’t food and Joyce guessed a design on a plate or bowl to maybe put some of that food in. We were having a party with all that great food. A breakfast party does sound fun.
But I didn’t fool everybody. Hope was very close with her raspberries for canning and Angela was right there with her raspberries cooking for jelly. It’s jam not jelly, but that’s definitely close enough. Way to go, ladies. You must have cooked up some jam or jelly in your time. So here’s a replay of Sunday’s mystery photo along with the rest of the picture. The jam is just beginning to boil up to the top of the pan before it settles back down to make some jam. Sometimes I have my kettle too full and I have to keep stirring it down to keep it from boiling over. Or I swipe some butter around the top of the pan. That nearly always works.
I learned my jam making skills from my mother. The kettle was my mother’s too. It’s just no telling how much jam and other things for canning have been cooked in that kettle. Pears and apples for canning. Green tomato or red tomato relish. Pickles. Green beans. Corn. All sorts of jams and preserves. I wish I had asked her where she got the kettle. So many things I wish I had asked her, but I’m glad she did share her canning and preserving skills with me.
So now it’s time for mystery picture number 2. I’ve promised six, but I’m still searching for three of those mysteries.
I think this one might be hard, but sometimes I’ve thought that in the past and you all guess it without a stumble. So, we shall see if I’ve been mysterious enough this time.
Remember if you leave a guess in a comment you will get an entry into a drawing for your choice of one of my books and I might throw in a grab bag book to go along with it. Two winners will be chosen by random drawing. Deadline to enter is midnight EST July 30, 2021.
I appreciate some of you saying you enjoy my mystery photo game. It’s always fun for me. Especially when you all have fun guessing. And all right, I’ll admit it. When you don’t all guess it right. 🙂
So what is your guess on Mystery Photo 2?
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All right, now I’m ready for your guesses!
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What a great variety of guesses. For sure, you aren’t all right, but could be that you all aren’t wrong either. Can’t let whether that is true or not out of the bag until Sunday.
Paula and Lucy – You two are thinking along the same lines. And I have been known to take pictures of flowers. So could be. Or maybe not.
Hope – you did good guessing the last one correctly even though you’ve never made jam yourself. I like to make jam almost as much as I like to eat it. But when it boils down it can pop on you sometimes. Apple butter is the worst. I always ended up with some burns from it popping on me. But I wish I had some of that good apple butter now. You’re covering your bases guessing both eggs and flowers. Could be one of them is right.
Briana – what a pretty picture of lemons on a branch. My grandkids would love it if that was true. They do like lemonade. But it could be I took a picture of a lemon tree somewhere once upon a time and saved it just for this mystery photo.
Emily – love your creative thinking. They do have yellow golf balls. I’ve seen them. Who knows? I might even have taken a picture of them. I do take pictures of some different things sometimes.
Donna Jean – egg yolks is a great guess. Not saying it’s right, but a great guess. But then it could be right. What’s this about a spoon on the pot keeping the eggs from boiling over. Is that a trick I haven’t learned?
Nancy – I love your guess of pollen on a bee’s legs. I did take a picture of that once. Very neat to see. So maybe I used that picture for my mystery photo. Or then, it might be egg yolks.
I’m going to guess it is a close-up of a flower, maybe a pansy?
Lemons on a tree branch
I think photo #2 looks like the pistol of a flowering plant surrounded by some stamen–pretty colors!
I have no clue!
Maybe the inside of a hibiscus flower
I’m guessing yellow plums instead of egg yolks.
Closeup of a butterfly
I think it looks like some insect eggs on a leaf.
4 egg yolks and the fork to beat them up with.
Looks like 4 egg yolks with something lying in the middle of them.
Even though, this looks like egg yolks, I’ll guess it’s really the center part of a flower….Daisy?
I definitely wouldn’t have guessed jam even though that’s a sight I’ve seen many times both growing up and canning for my own family. This new photo is another stumper. I’m going with pollen in a flower.
Pollen on a bees leg ?? Or egg yolks ….very challenging !
Four egg yolks in a pot being poached with a spoon across the pot to keep it form boiling over.
Yellow golf balls with a purple pen lying in between them? James 3:13-17💜
That last picture was a good one! It had me puzzled. Lol
For this picture, I think it may be lemons on a tree branch. 🙂
Yay! I thought that it looked like the side of a big pot and that you were making jam or jelly. I haven’t made them myself, but have seen them boiling. My mom canned some things from our garden when I was growing up. I don’t have a lot of storage space in our place, so I only can red beets right now. I freeze anything I can from our garden like tomatoes and green beans.
This second photo has me stumped. I think it could be some kind of flower and stem, but also kind of looks like 4 egg yokes with a dark piece of bacon in the center. I don’t think I will be close this time. 🙂
Looks like the stigma of a flower in the middle surrounded by the anther. I also love canning and look forward to my first tomato. Everything is late this year. Blessings
I will guess part of the inside of a flower.