The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery. ~Anais Nin
What a great Mystery Photo Game you all have made this one! Thank you for making it fun. The first picture most of you got easy peasy, but I upped my game and made it a little harder on the next ones. Not sure about this one, but then I wasn’t sure about the others either. I really thought some of you might get the dog leash, but you danced all around that one with Lucretia coming the closest when she guessed a belt. Maybe I needed to have Frankie’s black fur with that one.
Wednesday’s post tricked some of you but I loved the variety of guesses. Lisa B. just admitted she was stumped but still got that entry in the drawing for a book. Several of you, Birdie, Lavon, Sandra, Ann, thought it might be a honeycomb even though a few of you were a little doubtful that the color was right. I liked Robin’s guess of honeycomb cereal in milk. Now that is using her imagination.
Connie and bn100 suggested bone cartilage and Connie had an alternate guess of a shell. Elizabeth, Hope and Jacinda thought it might be a wasp next. I think I did that once in one of my games, but not this time. I liked Marji’s guess of a sunflower after the birds have pecked out all the seeds. Karen thought it was one of those waffle mats that you might have in front of the door. That was a great guess. Wrong but a really great guess. Amy went out into the ocean for a guess of coral. Emily was different from everybody with her vinyl chair, but then Kim was too with her furnace filter guess or garlic. Birdie’s second guess of a tile roof showed some imaginative thinking too. Ola used her imagination as well guessing it might be deep inside a flower.
Jolynn, the same as several of you, had two guesses. First one was the underside of a slug. Unless the slimy thing was crawling across a piece of glass, that wasn’t going to happen. I don’t like slugs. But then she also thought it might be a soapy sponge. Natalya was with her on that guess. Tammy thought it might be an egg carton and Carol said a bell pepper. I love Linda with what she called her “desperate” guess of a toad. That was pretty desperate, Linda. 🙂
Nancy hedged her bets saying it was something in nature. That does happen a lot with my mystery pictures and she’s right for this one too. Okay, Connie Lee and Lisa H. were very close with their mushroom guesses but it wasn’t the underside of a mushroom. No, it was what Paula, Lee and Karen recognized at once. A morel mushroom. They know their mushrooms.
I had never actually seen one of those mushrooms before except in photos. But then my son and three of his kids walked to my wildflower cliff area and at the bottom of the cliff in front of the cave coming up out of the rocks, there was a morel mushroom. We both knew what it was at once. But of course, we had the whole mushroom and not some super small portion of it the way all of you did. I’m not a mushroom harvester, but it was fun seeing something I hadn’t seen on my farm before. Always fun to make a nature discovery.
Now you have one more picture to figure out before I draw the three winners on Wednesday. Deadline to enter is 12 p.m. Tuesday May 31, 2022. But whether you win or not, I do hope you’ve had fun exercising your imagination with me. I have a photo file of past mystery photos on my computer and I have to admit that I’ve forgotten what some of them are. Now they are a new mystery to me. LOL. I admire you all with your guesses, right or wrong.
So, what’s your idea of what our last mystery photo up top is?
WHEN THE MEADOW BLOOMS
This was Dirk’s response when Anneliese told him he would be trespassing on her father’s farm if he crossed the river.
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It does look like a button with a bead on top of it. I am not certain what the gray object is. I thought it was a plate (?) At first I thought it was sunspots, but the circular object overhanging it did not jibe with that. You are so clever!
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Sometimes more clever with these mystery photos than others, Marjorie. We’ll see if I had a clever one this time or one that was too easy. Not telling until Wednesday. But I like the sunspots idea. I do like to take pictures of sunshine. 🙂
I thought my guess of buttons was probably way off the mark but now I see that lots of others had the same guess so I don’t feel so foolish. 🤔 If we’re all wrong, well misery loves company.
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Don’t let your eyes fall out of your head, Lee. That would not be good! But glad you came up with a guess. A popular guess. We’ll see if popularity wins the day on Wednesday.
I’m guessing buttons this time. If it’s not buttons, I give up. Stared at it long enough. My eyes are about to fall out of my head.
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Well, I guess I’ve really tricked most of you or I really haven’t tricked most of you. LOL. I’m not saying which until Wednesday. But some of you sound so sure. Hmm.
Wrong or right, I do appreciate you giving it a try and hope your imaginations feel stretched and ready to face the summer. You all are the best.
Some of it looks like the decorative glass beads that you can put in a goldfish bowl or use in creating floral arrangements.
You’ve done a good job stumping me again.
I’m going to guess this is a handful of pebbles….although the gray object doesn’t look very ‘pebblely’ .
PS I always like the mystery picture games!
Buttons
Multi-colored, assortment of buttons
I, too, thought of buttons since the edges of the gray and the pearlized one look distinctly like buttons. Some buttons don’t have flat edges, for example, the amber and the ivory-colored button on the right. There was a time when crafters made pins and other jewelry out of buttons and other odds and ends glued onto a backing. I suspect this is one such piece of jewelry. Regardless, it’s been fun guessing!
The seamstress in me sees buttons, but when I tap my imagination I see pebbles in the creek. And I know how you love walking by the creek. 🙂
Plates stacked on top of each other.
I’m going with buttons as well !!
Looks like buttons to me, as well.
I have to agree with all of the button guesses, but that seems too easy!!!
At first I thought eggs frying in a pan with the lid on the edge. Through that didn’t really fit. So I guess I just have to wait until the answer comes. But this was a lot of fun, for sure. Thanks for the opportunity to play. And thank you for your excellent books and your newsletters. I first read you Shaker books and then the Rosey Corner series.
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So glad you’ve had fun with my mystery photo game, Ann. Even happier that you’ve enjoyed some of my books and my newsletter. As for your guess, we shall see. Thanks for playing. It is fun for me too.
I first thought it was a stoneware plate on top but that didn’t fit with anything else. So. I think pile of buttons. A blue gray one. A opal one. An off white one. A see through gold one.
looks like buttons
I got so excited because I thought I had a Good guess of different buttons, then I realized a few others guessed the same thing, even before I did. It would be funny if were all wrong. ha ha ha
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If you’re right, you can still be excited, Jolynn. If you’re wrong, you can all be wrong together. I would think that was funny, for sure. 🙂
I am a bit stumped on this photo. It looks like a group of items together. Maybe dishes in a drainer? The top part almost looks like a big pot lid to me, but the things under it didn’t make sense for that. I just noticed some other guesses of buttons, and I can see that now, so they are probably right on that. 🙂 Thanks for the fun guessing game!
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Glad you enjoyed the guessing game, Hope. I always have fun with this and with everybody’s answers. I’m staying mum about the right or wrong of those answers until Wednesday. At that time I’ll take credit for tricking you all or admit that I did a poor job of picking this last mystery.
I’m pretty sure the new photo is part of a button collection. I love seeing the various shapes and sizes of buttons all together.
We have morel mushrooms out at our property. My grandkids found some.
This week’s picture looks like buttons from your button box!
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Then I guess that’s why you knew what my mystery photo was, Paula. I thought maybe everybody would, but obviously not all of us are mushroom experts.
Thanks for the new guess this week.
I am guessing a button collection.