Mysteries and Stories Can Be Surprising

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise. ~Julia Cameron

Another mystery has come and been solved – by some of you. When I posted Sunday’s mystery photo, I wasn’t sure whether it would be easy or hard. Whichever it was for you, I loved the guesses. Some were very fun. Ann threw up her hands and gave up guessing anything, but she still gets an entry in my giveaway. You have to admire honesty. Susan and Nancy said sponges. I thought maybe more of you would guess that. I might have. Then cheese was a nice guess. Could have been Swiss cheese. I loved the rice krispie guesses. Made me want to go buy some rice krispies and marshmallows. I love those sweet treats.

I had to look at it again when Marji admitted being stumped but saw a dog’s head, a stinkbug and a ducky with a hat in the picture. She had to clue me in on the ducky but once she said where, I saw it too. Rock salt was guessed by a couple of you and ice and water. Lavon thought it was one of the flowers all decked out with frost that I sometimes share on Facebook. Jeanie saw a countertop. That was a great guess. Wrong but still a great guess. Laura saw froth on coffee and Lee saw melted candle wax. That was better than the ear wax Lisa saw. LOL.  Carol saw tapioca pudding and Briana guessed Little House on the Prairie popcorn balls.

Love how all of your imaginations work. Dorothy saw clouds. I was so taken with her guess, I took a picture of some clouds today, but even after I pulled out a little of the picture, it still looked like a cloud. No mystery to it.

Many of you were very close to right with your English muffin, french bread, biscuit guesses. And Suzanne, Pamela, Linda R., Sandra, and Roberta were exactly right with bread. Suzanne and Linda R a little more exact than the others when they said homemade bread. Yes, I was fixing breakfast and wondering about a mystery photo. So I snapped a picture of my toast. Maybe the exactly exact guess would have been toasted homemade bread. LOL. Liz did add butter to her English muffin guess.

I’ve been making sourdough bread for years. I don’t know how many years but my kids think it must be over thirty. When people started passing the bread starter around all those years ago, I said I didn’t want to do that. But then I did. I found out it wasn’t that much trouble and it tasted really good. So I buy flour and use my sourdough starter and don’t buy bread anymore. It makes yummy toast. Toast that can look like a lot of other things if you make a little bit of it bigger that normal and stir in some imagination. Not to mention that duckie with a hat in the lower right corner.

So thank you all for making the game so fun. I have a new mystery photo up top. I think this one is going to be hard but usually when I think that, it turns out to be easy. If you leave your best guess in a comment here on the post, you’ll get an entry in my book giveaway. Each time you guess on a new photo, you get a new entry. I’ll pick three winners who will get their choice of one of my autographed books. You have to be at least 18 to enter. Deadline for entries is June 6, 2023 at midnight EST. I’ll contact the winners via email and announce their first names on my June 7th post.

I’ve got a giveaway going in the newsletter I sent out last week. If you didn’t get one, let me know and I’ll send one out. If you’re signed up from my newsletter, it might have gone in your spam folder. Also if you sign up for my newsletter, you have to respond to an email asking you to confirm that yes, you’re sure you want to get my newsletters.

Good News for When the Meadow Blooms

You may have already seen my good news on Facebook or Instagram, but I made this cute graphic. I wanted to share it again. 🙂 My book, When the Meadow Blooms is a finalist for long historical novel in the Faith, Hope and Love Award. So exciting. I just know Calla and Sienna would be jumping up and down and clapping to know their story is touching hearts.

All right. I’m ready for your guesses on Mystery Photo #3. 

Thanks so much for making my Mystery Photo Game so much fun.