There’s the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.
- Holmes, in “A Study in Scarlet”, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Don’t be alarmed! This isn’t a photo of blood, but I did think it was interesting that the quotation discusses scarlet, and in this photo the scarlet ran over a colourless object. No more clues – what is this a photo of?
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Last week the Macro Monday Photo was called Spots. As many of you guessed, it was a photo of the spots on a flower petal – in this case a lovely yellow lily that my friend in Phoenix had in a vase on her kitchen table.
purplepolitico
/ April 30, 2012Very nice photos
Margie
/ May 1, 2012Welcome to my blog – hope you come back to ‘Canada’ now and for a visit!
jwms1
/ April 30, 2012My guess is looking down the throat of a blender filled with ice cream and raspberry puree? Great photo, it is a mystery.
Margie
/ May 1, 2012Well, you have the looking down into a container part right!
winsomebella
/ April 30, 2012There is a raspberry puree aura to it but I am just not sure…….
Margie
/ May 1, 2012Stay tuned!
Amanda J Edwards
/ April 30, 2012Is it something pureed but not blended yet? Mebbe? No matter, the Holmes quote was well worth trying to figure out the photo.
Margie
/ May 1, 2012The bubble like texture is a conundrum, isn’t it!
pouringmyartout
/ April 30, 2012dried dregs in the bottom of a wineglass… or a fish with eye-herpes…
Margie
/ May 1, 2012Did you cheat and look at the title of the photo?
pouringmyartout
/ May 1, 2012I wish I knew you could do that, because I looked at that thing for a long time. I was going to go with pomegranate juice, but that seemed unlikely.
Margie
/ May 1, 2012I might drink pomegranate juice, assuming the wine is all gone.
pouringmyartout
/ May 1, 2012I owe my lucky guess to James May (from Top Gear) and his show where he travels around learning about wine.
magsx2
/ May 1, 2012Hi,
I also have to say I think it looks like ice-cream with some sort of topping.
Margie
/ May 1, 2012I’ll have to look at the photo again and see if I can see ice-cream!
Lorna's Voice
/ May 1, 2012It looks like something to eat–a confection or a fancy cupcake.
Margie
/ May 1, 2012It was fit for human consumption, for sure.
jwms1
/ May 1, 2012Trying again – the contents of a packet of a red tinted drink, brand and flavor unknown, before the liquid is added. The white is the surface that the glass is seated upon?
Margie
/ May 1, 2012Very close.
Tina
/ May 2, 2012A frosted cupcake sitting on a glass plate.
Margie
/ May 3, 2012Nice try – you got the glass part right!
Mark Armstrong
/ May 2, 2012Man, a Sherlock Holmes quote!! Is this a hip, cool, sophisticated blog or what??
The photo? Clearly a bird’s-eye view of a wide-brimmed, conspicuous consumption hat worn by, who else, Scarlett O’Hara.
P.S. Glad you didn’t show the hat after the bird flew over… : (
Margie
/ May 3, 2012Glad to see your vivid imagination worked over time on this one!