“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