Don’t insult readers by questioning the extent of their imaginations. Most need only to be nudged to solve a good mystery. -Peggy Kopman-Owens
Far be it from me to question the extent of your imaginations. I’m seeing it at work with these mystery photos. And what fun imaginations you have. I love the way you give these mystery photos your best try. It certainly works my imagination to come up with new mystery photos. We’re on the homestretch of the game. This picture and one more. I tested a couple of ideas out on my granddaughter today and she got them both. So, I may have to go back to the drawing board or the picture board, anyway.
But I did get you on Wednesday’s picture. I thought I might, but then sometimes you all surprise me. I’ll think I have a sure thing to have you guessing wrong, and then you all or most of you get it. Not this time though. But you had some great guesses.
Several of you were sure it was cobblestones, rocks or a marble surface. Karen was happy she was close with her guess of the last mystery photo which she said is a first for her. I’m not keeping score, so I didn’t know that. By the way, Karen, I’d probably miss them all if somebody else was posting them instead of me. I’m no good at this type of thing. It’s a lot easier when you know what the picture is before you jerk a piece out of it for the mystery photo.
I had to smile at Birdie’s dried up lettuce leaves, but Tammy was right there with her with lettuce and I liked Judy’s guess of cabbage. I could see that. Wasn’t right, but I could imagine cabbage looking something like the mystery photo. I liked Maylin’s map guess and Karen’s topography guess. Then Amy says her husband was onboard with the Google maps. I don’t think this picture is going to help you discover any new directions. Lisa liked the idea of food with muskmelon. That made me smile because you hardly ever hear anybody saying muskmelon these days but that’s what we called cantaloupes down on the farm when I was a kid. Are they the same things or different? I’ll have to look that up. Great guess, Lisa, but wrong.
Hope and Marji were seeing rocky creeks or streams. And Marji, we usually say creek around here. I do go down the creek and I do take pictures, but this isn’t one of those. Betty had an interesting guess of recycled newspapers and Sandra thought it might be the bottom of shoe with grass stuck on it. Nancy thought a puffy comforter and Donna Jean thought a worn out quilt. Lucy guessed a furnace filter. That might make a good mystery photo. But as I said, the popular guess of was rock, stone walls or walkway, marble tops, granite countertop, cobblestones. I could see all those in the picture.
Okay, the closest to getting it right were Ola and Connie Lee. Of course, Connie did guess four things which helped her chances with shell, rock, moth, bark. And Ola guessed moss on a rock. So, here’s the big reveal.
Ola got the mossy part and Connie Lee got the shell part. Not sure she was talking about a turtle shell, but she did say shell. This big old guy was out wandering around this spring looking for a new pond where he might find a new girlfriend. I took a picture, but you can be sure I didn’t get too close.
We used to have a neighbor who would come get them if you caught them wandering around like this and take it home to eat. But I’ve never been hungry enough to chow down on turtle. So this guy was safe to continue on his way. Even the dogs don’t bother these guys. They will bark ferociously but the same as me, they give the turtle plenty of space.
Thanks for playing. You all got another entry into the drawing for winner’s choice of one of my books and a grab bag book too. Two winners. Deadline to make a guess is Saturday, July 31, 2021 at midnight EST, and you have to be at least 18 to enter. But win or not, it’s fun to exercise your imagination. Up top is mystery photo number 5. I’ll give you a hint. It’s not another turtle. 🙂
Again, thanks for joining in with my Mystery Photo Game fun. I’m ready for your new guesses and hope you don’t all get it right. But we will see.
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Also, kind of reminds me of a milking machine, but, I’m almost sure it’s not a milking machine.
The left side of the picture looks like my CPAP machine! But, can’t figure out the right side.
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Birdie, sounds like you have done some cooking with that kitchen aid mixer. I don’t have one, but I do know some people who do. So, I might had sneaked over to their kitchen to take a picture. Maybe. We shall see.
Ola, you in the majority thinking it has to do with motors or cars, but it remains to be seen if that happens to be true or not. But you were close last time. As for the turtle, you weren’t expecting his shell to have so much mossy stuff on his shell.
Marji, they say it’s going to be hot enough tomorrow that even as a well established adult, I might take a run through a sprinkler were the chance to present itself. And I’m glad you folks in Delaware know what a creek is and have named it correctly.
Eileen, your guess is almost too complicated for me to imagine it. Pie crusts shielding from baking next to that mixer Birdie is borrowing or having me borrow.