Nature’s Beauty Is No Mystery

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Sometimes something can look beautiful just because it’s different in some way from the other things around it. One red petunia in a window box will look very beautiful if all the rest of them are white, and vice-versa. ~Andy Warhol And so the last mystery is revealed for this session of my Mystery Photo Game. I do hope you …

One More Mystery Photo

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“I love to see the sunshine on the wings of the Dragonflies… there is magic in it.” ~Ama H. Vanniarachchy And so we are down to our last mystery photo for this Mystery Photo Game. We’ll play again but I have to have time to gather up some more mysterious photos. You people are sometimes hard to trick with my …

Mystery Picture = Imagination Exercise

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If it can’t be fried in bacon grease, it ain’t worth cooking, let alone eating. ~ Southern proverb Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. ~ Doug Larson I looked for some quotes about bacon and found two I couldn’t resist to go with my Wednesday mystery photo. Yes, quite a …

Loving Berries – Straw and Black

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I love berries. Strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, black berries, anything with an ‘errie’ in it! ~Jordin Sparks I’m late to the mystery photo game tonight because the kids came out to go blackberry picking tonight. It’s been a very disappointing blackberry season. After the abundance of wild raspberries, I really thought the blackberries would be just as good or better. I …

Winners All Around

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“Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods” – Christopher Hitchens Thanks to all …

Mystery Spots and Pet Photo Day

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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly. ~R. Buckminster Fuller Okay, so my first picture wasn’t quite as mysterious as I had hoped. A lot of you got it right off. Yes, the spots on a butterfly wing. I do appreciate those of you who used a little more imagination and saw …

Ready? Set. Play. A New Mystery Photo Game

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No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye. ~Elizabeth Bowen Are you ready for a little fun? So how about a new mystery photo game? I’ve been looking at everything with narrowed eyes this week while wondering if I could make this or that look mysterious. Even took a picture of Frankie’s paw today. Enlarged the picture, cropped it, …

Historic Osage Orange Tree Photo Op

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Fort Harrod, the first pioneer settlement in Kentucky in 1774, has been reconstructed as a history park in Harrodsburg, Kentucky. You can go tour the fort and see how those first pioneers lived. There’s a picnic area in front of the fort where the unofficial largest Osage orange tree in the county is located. It isn’t the officiaI largest tree …

Mama for the First Time

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Today is my eldest son’s birthday. He came into the world and changed everything for me, even more than things had already changed when I married. Of course, if you are in the family way as the older folks used to say when the word pregnant was not quite accepted in mixed company, you have to know that sooner or …