Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses. ~Alphonse Karr
Well, as old Abe Lincoln once said, you can fool some of the people some of the time, but not all the people all the time or something like that. Let’s just say my first mystery photo was not the most mysterious one I’ve ever posted. Fifteen of you hit the nail squarely on the head saying it was a dew kissed rose and 
five more of you were very nearly right with your candy or icing roses. And I thought this might be one of those that fooled most of the people. 
But it was definitely a rose that I spotted early one morning a few weeks ago in my neighbors’ yard when I was feeding their dogs. Or as Kathleen so poetically stated it was “Moisture bubbles on fragrant pink fleur with the sun glancing off its delicate petals causing parts in shadow in the early morn.” I think she may get the prize for the most perfectly descriptive guess I’ve ever gotten on one of my mystery photos.
However, some of you did make some imaginative wrong guesses. Thank goodness. Those guesses made me feel so much better. 🙂 Evelyn said a ruffled doily. I could see that. Jeanne and Stella were seeing lace edges. Sue said a candy dish and Lou Ann mentioned the kind, a candlewick dish. Ola saw a purse or tote bag. I liked Karen’s lampshade and Nyla said ribbon. Emily was up there with the candy roses thinking it was a Valentine’s cake. I loved Marji’s sherbet shavings. I can see that, can’t you? But my favorite wrong guess has to be Kathi’s camisole. A very pink camisole. Lovely to consider. Phyllis just admitted she didn’t know, a perfectly acceptable comment to get her name in the drawing for the books. For the rest of you, everything was coming up roses.
So here goes with mystery picture two. If you all get this one, I may have to throw my hands up in surrender. Anyway, you know the drill. You look at the mystery picture and then try to guess what it is. Each new picture gives you another chance to get your name in my drawing hat for the prizes. I’ll pick three winners by random drawing and contact the winners via e-mail before I reveal the winners’ first names here on my blog July 5th. The contest is open all 18 or over. No purchases or actions, other than the comment, are required to enter. But while it’s always fun to win some books, just using your imagination to come up with some guesses can be fun too whether you win the books or not. We all need to exercise our imaginations and keep them sharp for all the books we want to read.
Walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round. ~Ben Hogan
As always, thanks for reading. And I look forward to your guesses on mystery picture 2!
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I too was going to go with moth or butterfly but someone beat me to it ! Sticking to it though!
A picture of a bird
I think maybe a very close up patch of cow hide or cow hair, whatever you may call it, lol!
Looks like a rooster comb plant to me.
This looks like animal markings of some kind. I’ll go exotic with my guess and say a giraffe. 🙂
I’m stumped….but, my first thought was dog hair 🐶
A fur/hide rug or blanket? Like a bear hide rug or something?
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Great guesses, everybody. And such a variety too, although sweater, blanket, shawl, rug are running ahead right now. Dog fur and deer hide get in there and Kathleen, cattail is a good guess as is moth, Lisa. Not saying any of the guesses are right, but they are all good guesses. Come Sunday you’ll get to see the rest of the picture. I’ve already been working on mystery picture 4.
Lou Anne, loved your guess, but you needn’t worry if it was a buffalo or some such dangerous, furry, foreboding creature I would definitely keep my distance. Of course I did almost step on a snake the other day. Would have never seen it at all if it hadn’t been that I was walking with my little visiting dog who has to stay of a leash since I don’t trust her not to run away. She spotted the snake. I stepped right over it.
Close up of a Deer hide!
Fur of a dog ???
A pretty shag sweater, hand knit!
I would guess a shawl with various lines of color.
You are so into shrubs, flowers, plants and I am not
a “green thumbed” person SO, the shawl is my best
guess?
This one looks foreboding, fury, fibrous, woody, thinking maybe you got too close. Cleary, I have no clue.
A multi colored shag rug
Could this be a photo of a mushroom?
This picture makes me think of a purse I once had, which was a patchwork of furry squares of cloth. I’d guess it was part of a blanket or throw or bedspread…
Cattail.
Kathleen ~ Lane Hill House
A blanket, a coat??? I honestly don’t have a clue. But it’s fun to try. 😊
The Rose is beautiful, but I never would have guessed that.
Feathers on a bird?
A closeup of a moth.