No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye. ~Elizabeth Bowen
You all make these mystery photo games so much fun. Especially when you don’t guess right. That’s not nice of me, is it? LOL. But last picture, so many of you figured it out without having to much more than think. In fact, you said it was so easy that you were sure I wouldn’t have tried to make something so easy mysterious. But, alas, I did. It was a cloud.
So, I was determined on the next mystery photo, the one I posted Wednesday night, to give you all a little more trouble figuring out what the mystery might be. I almost had a slam dunk, but not quite.
Many of you thought it was a flower, and I do love to take pictures of flowers. If you follow my posts on Facebook or Instagram, you know that. Well, I have been known to put a few flowers here on One Writer’s Journal at times too. Nine of you just said flower. Ann was one of those. She made me smile because she said she wasn’t sure about her guess but wanted to get as many entries in the giveaway as possible. Guessing on each of the mystery photos does get you another entry in the drawing to be one of three winners for one of my books.
Judi and Susan said a flower petal. Birdie and Paula said flower too but specified a begonia. Lee thought it looked like a zinnia or a rooster comb (not sure if that was the flower one or one on the rooster) or watermelon. Shirley agreed with her on that watermelon guess. Pamela added a guess with her flower guess too of a cake with icing. Sometimes you have to keep thinking about what it might be.
Nancy, Lisa, and Deborah thought it looked like a rose. I do love a red rose. Joanne picked a peony. Lucy thought a poinsetta. I just planted the poinsetta I had at Christmas in my flower bed and it does still have red leaves. Love that Lucy keeps guessing, even though she think she’s always wrong. I know she’s been right in some of these games. Becky says crabapple blooms. Those blooms are beautiful on my tree in the springtime. I liked Janice’s guess of a wild onion bloom. I’ve been wondering if I could make a mystery out of one of those. I’m not sure but that I may have already tried that in past mystery photo games. They can be surprisingly pretty.
Megan said flower but thought it was on a shirt. Debi and Nancy thought I’d done another close-up from the cover of The Song of Sourwood Mountain – this time the flower on the cover. Nancy, I’m so glad you liked the story. I love hearing that from readers like you.
Some of you went with food ideas. Connie and Ann M. thought strawberry shortcake. I could go for a piece of that too. Kayla thought jello salad or pie. The photo had her ready to dig out her recipe books to make some kind of delicious pie. We had a big family gathering here yesterday to celebrate my husband’s birthday. I made four pies, blackberry with raspberries and peaches added, cherry, chocolate chip, and a pineapple blueberry pudding no sugar pie. Those pies all disappeared. So I’m ready for more pie now too. Can you tell I love pies?
Judy Sch had an individual guess of a fabric label, but she wasn’t the one to spoil my shut-out. That was Emily who knew what the picture was. Here it is. A picture of my granddaughter’s graduation class last week while waiting to walk across the stage for their diplomas. The photo did get a little fuzzy when I cropped it, but way to go, Emily. I had to wonder if you were at a graduation ceremony in the last few weeks.
Okay. I’m ready to see if you guess this new mystery photo up top.
This one might be hard too, but we’ll see. Your guess, right or wrong, will get you an entry in the drawing. Thanks for playing.
Happy Father’s Day
Before I go, I hope you all had a wonderful Father’s Day with the dads in your life. I had a great dad who’s been gone for many years now, but plenty of good memories linger in my heart. My kids have a great dad in my husband and my grandkids have great dads in my sons. I know many other great dads. What a blessing a good father is to a child.
Here’s a picture of my dad. After I got my first camera when I was around 10 or so, he liked posing for a picture. This is one I like.
“Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, storytellers, and singers of song.” – Unknown
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It Looks Like Rhubarb or Celery
Or a tiller? Grinding up weeds/plants on the soil? (I made a snip of the photo and have been rotating it all different directions.) 🙂
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Those are some great guesses, Jennifer. Love how you keep seeing new things. This one was a hard one and who knows? Maybe you figured it out. I’ll be posting the rest of the photo tonight on my blog post with one more mystery picture for this game.
Or maybe it is an orange tractor/lawn mower shooting grass clippings out from the side of the machine?
It looks like a close-up of a bouquet of flowers you’d pick up from the grocery store. The shiny cellophane, orange tissue paper, green flower stems (maybe daffodils?).
Some sort of painted glass? Or someone mentioned a hummingbird feeder, I can sort of get that. Other than that I am stumped.
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Thanks for joining in with a guess, Patty. I will be posting the rest of the picture tonight and you can see if you were right. Meanwhile, I’m working of coming up with a new mystery to guess.
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I’m loving all the variety of guesses for this mystery photo. It is a tough one. I doubt I’ll find one as difficult for Wednesday. I’m still working on that one with three or four ideas. But thank you, for exercising your imaginations and coming up with these guesses.
Nancy and Megan, the two of you are thinking alike with the painted vase idea. I do have a lot of vases. Not that I need them all but I guess I’m always ready to get a new one and try out some flowers. Can you imagine living where a gardener raises your flowers and a servant picks them and arranges them for you and makes sure you have flowers in your every room? Of course, I’m thinking about the Biltmore Estate that I toured once. But should I want to put flowers in every room, I’d have the vases and I could have taken a picture of one of them. Megan, I’m glad you think the game is fun. I enjoy it too, but it does strain my brain to come up with mystery pictures sometimes.
Connie L, a paintbrush dipping into a container is a great guess. I do need to do some painting. So maybe I did and took a picture.
Debi, it could be a vase of flowers with only the stems in the mystery photo or veggies in water. Good guesses.
Mary, they could be scallions, but are they? That is the question.
Lucy, I love that you are sure you’re on to something with this guess. An English cucumber in a glass sure might look like this. But did your eyes trick you? We shall see.
Karen B., I love a reader who has a great imagination. I know when you read one of my scenes in my stories or some other writer’s you are seeing what we are trying to show you with our words. So, it could be your figured out the true rest of the picture or it could be that you just have a wonderful imagination.
Martha, you are the second person to think it is a brush or broom bristle. Interesting guess.
Becky N, you know your vegetables. Asparagus in a glass might look just like this. Maybe. But is that what it really is? Time will tell.
Pamela, so glad you are still giving the mystery pictures some thought. It could be a hummingbird feeder. They can be fancy and I do have some of those feeders. And another couple of people think the same. Could you three be right?
I am sounding a little smug in all these comments, so, who knows? Maybe some of you got it. Maybe none of you did. The one thing sure is that you all didn’t since there are a variety of guesses. Tune in Wednesday to see the “rest of the picture.”
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Love how you all are giving this one the good old college try. It is turning out to be a stumper for many of you. To tell you the truth, if I didn’t already know what it is, it would be a definite stumper for me. Even knowing what it is has me a little stumped. LOL.
Not many of you are agreeing on what it is. Donna Jean and Joanne, you are both in the rhubarb camp. Rhubarb does have a pretty color and my sister makes pies with some she raises. I could never quite get in the rhubarb eating camp when I was a kid, but I’d probably like it now if I gave it a try.
Una, I like your idea of a reflection. We’ll see if you’re right.
Lisa B, I love how you are letting your husband’s guess work for you this time.
Susan, I had watermelon at our big family gathering this weekend. I could have taken a picture of it. I could have, but did I?
Winnie, I had to look up what a sansevieria plant was. I always knew it by that other name which I suppose isn’t all that nice to mothers-in-law like me. 🙂 It is green.
Pam, I like your guess of tulips in an orange pot. I think some others have thought something the same. Could you be right? We will see on Wednesday.
Kathy, you aren’t the only one to claim to be stumped. Luckily, you don’t have to get the mystery solved to be in the drawing for a book.
Marji and Joy, I do have those bird feeders. So I could have taken a picture of one of them.
Lee, I did try to come up with a stumper, but your guess of a Christmas ornament is a good one. I didn’t say right necessarily, but we will see.
Diana and Ann L, a painting could be a lot of things for sure. ‘
Jeanne, you’re with Diana and Ann in the painting idea. It could be dipped in paint.
Susan, you’re right there with them with the finger dipping in polish but you did change your guess to a leafy plant.
Suzanne, a cactus plant is an interesting guess, but who knows? I could be right.
Lavon, your comment has me smiling as I see your boys with some purple poke berry fingers and faces. I’m sure they had fun until mom went to scrubbing on them. Poke weed is a guess as good as any when you have no idea. And I got to smile at your story.
Paula, you’re seeing a reflection like Una. The two of you might be on the right track. We will see.
Hope, I did think more of you would see those graduation hats, but the picture was a little fuzzy. But Emily figured it out. I like how you don’t just say a painting but mention what could be in that painting. You did have quite the variety from moon to couch.
Judi, don’t feel bad. You aren’t the only one stumped and at least you made a guess.
Dona, hmm. It could be a stem. For sure, there is a green color there.
I haven been so wrong on all the others but here goes; a decorative hummingbird feeder.
Looks like asparagus stalks in a glass to me.
Looks like a broom or brush bristle to me.
I think it’s a pair of green drapes pulled back with a pink under curtain showing.
Veggies in water.
Watermelon 🍉 I think
An English cucumber in a glass of water. I know I’m onto something 😂
Could it be scallions (green onions)?
Could they be scallions (green onions)?
Flower stem and leaves in a vase.
I think it looks like a paint brush dipping into a small container of paint.
It looks like a painted vase, with some kind of flower or plant painted on it. Whatever it is, it’s pretty. These are really fun by the way!
I think it is a painted vase ….maybe ?