“The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.” — Gregory Maguire
The first mystery picture has come and tickled the imaginations of many of you. The popular guess was some sort of fabric like a rug, a blanket, a towel, something crocheted, even a couch cover, or a hot pad to set a dish on. Great guesses but wrong. The picture did get a little fuzzy when I pulled it up to make it a mystery. So I totally saw that fuzzy blanket or rug.
Some other guesses were a butterfly or moth wing. I have been known to take plenty of butterfly pictures and a moth too now and again. I’ve even made mystery pictures out of a few of them, but not this one.
Okay, here are some of my favorites of your imagined guesses. Mary, I loved that partially eaten blueberry pie. You had me ready to go rolling out some pie dough. I like Suzanne’s suggestion that it was a logo on clothing, and Hope’s idea that it was the bottom of a sneaker has me ready to take some sneaker sole pictures for a game down the road. Joanne said it was part of a picture I’d posted of my great grandfather. Still has me wondering about that. Texas Momma says a cookie because she was hungry. Not a bad reason to do some imagining.
Then there were those who saw an eye. Linda and Lisa thought maybe I’d snapped a picture of Frankie’s eye, but no. Lee thought I was braver than I am and took a picture of a snapping turtle’s eye. I come across those critters now and again and have snapped some pictures of them. I think I did a mystery picture of one of their muddy shells once, but I give those guys plenty of room. Don’t want them snapping me instead of me snapping them. Others suggested it was an eye too, but Becky N was the only one to get it mostly right. Dagan-Brittnie did get it exactly right on FB, but only the guesses here on the blog post count for the giveaway. It is a bird’s eye, a bluebird’s eye. Actually, the bluebird’s eye on the cover of my new book, The Song of Sourwood Mountain.
Now for the funny part. Ever since I posted that picture last Wednesday, I have had the wrong answer to my mystery in mind. I have thought all along that the mystery eye was from a picture of my new little kitten. I totally ignored the hit of blue around the eye.
A feral cat had kittens under my deck and I have become attached to her and her kittens. Three have gone to new homes. I have one left. I need to give her away too since I have Frankie. Frankie is not cat friendly and I shudder to think what might happen if Frankie and kitten end up in the same place at the same time. So far the kitten has stayed in the front of the house where it lives under the deck and Frankie has stayed contained either in the house or in the fenced backyard except when he is walking with me. I don’t think I can introduce them to one another and expect friendship. So I’m hoping for a home for the kitten. I’m also hoping to catch the mama cat and have her spayed so that I won’t have more kittens under my deck. I have made friends with her, but she is very wary of being trapped in a cat carrier.
But back to the mystery photo that turned out to something of a mystery to me as well as you. It is not my kitten’s eye as I’ve been thinking since I posted it Wednesday. It is the beautiful bluebird’s eye on my book cover. I enlarged the bluebird part where you can see the design around its eye. I’m not sure if that is just an artist’s rendition, but when I looked up bluebirds online, they do have a rim around their eyes.
So now up top is the next mystery photo. Maybe it will be a mystery to you. Maybe it won’t. But either way, I hope you are having fun playing the Mystery Photo Game. And now you know that sometimes I even trick myself.
Remember, each time you guess on a new mystery photo, you get another entry in the drawing to win one of my books. I’ll pick three winner on June 23 and notify them by email. You have to be at least 18 years old to enter, but you can ask your kids to figure out the mystery if you want. After this picture, I’ll try to come up with three more mystery photos. I have two already in mind. So, we’ll see if I can trick myself again. LOL
So what’s your best guess on the picture above?
This might be one mystery you all solve. We’ll see. Love the quote below.
“People like you and I, though mortal of course, like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live. What I mean is we never cease to stand like curious children before the great Mystery into which we were born.” — Albert Einstein
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I see an animal which I think is a dog and seems to be underneath wet flowers or bushes.
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Love your guess, Loretta. Tune in later to see the rest of the picture.
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Connie, you are on the cloud wagon. Right or wrong, you have plenty who agree with you.
Sarah – You didn’t stick with one cotton ball. You want the whole bag to look soft and white. Could be you are right.
Una, you are saying snow here in the summertime. We’d be complaining at the first snowflake. But now a whie slushy. That sounds good.
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You all are so much fun when I do one of these games on my blog, One Writer’s Journal. Love your imaginations and your willing spirit to give solving these pesky mystery phoros.
Suzanne, Dana, Ann, Birdie Hope, Nancy, Marji, Megan, Lisa, and Becky – You all seem to be in agreement on this mystery photo. Of course, you Hope and Ann and Marji think that’s too easy and Suzanne, you threw in another guess to go along with clouds. So who knows? Maybe I posted something way too easy or maybe you are all wrong. Of course, Megan, you are seeing clouds in a painting and Mary, you are enjoying those clouds from high above as Lisa just looked out her windshield at them.
And I can’t forget you, Lucy, with your cottonball guess. And you aren’t always wrong.. I remember you guessed one of the mysteries once.
The big reveal will be tomorrow night.
Susan, your ocean waves hitting the beach is an awesome guess and makes me wish I was walking barefoot through some of those waves right now.
Paula and Pamela – you guys are feeling the chill of snow. It definitely could be snow. It definitely could. But is it? That is the question.
Sharon, I love your guess about lace on a wedding dress. June is the month for weddings.
Marjorie, I like your dish soap guess. Could I have been that clever?
Judi, I would have to have been really clever to trick everybody with dryer lint. I do “harvest” plenty of it. Did you know that if you stuff the lint each time you clean your filter into a toilet paper cardboard roll, you can make some fine firestarters.
Judy, I love your water on a shower glass door too. You are so imaginative. The question is am I that imaginative?
Snow or a white slushy
I am going to say a bag of cotton balls! Thank you for this amazing Mystery pictures!
It’s looks like something frosty, not sure what. Or it could be clouds in the sky?
Ok, I’m useless at this game but I’m game to try again. I think it’s a painting of part of a dogwood flower with the sky in the background.
The reason I thought the last picture was of your great grandfather was because it looked like a very pixelated eye so I thought maybe you’d zoomed in on his face. I always overthink puzzles, can you tell? 😂
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I had zoomed in on an eye, Joanne. So, you were on the right track. I love that you keep exercising your imagination by making a guess. You don’t have to be good at the game. Just have fun. And maybe you’re helping me out if you guess wrong. I want a few guesses to be off the mark. LOL. That painting of the dogwood flower sounds wonderful. Maybe I can find something like that. Maybe I already did. Thanks for playing.