Mystery Photo

After sending the second photo yesterday, a few people guessed that the mystery photo was snow. I thought it would be very easy to guess, so I added the orange just to see if I could make it a little harder. I guess I made it too hard.

The strange texture in the snow caught my attention during a recent snowshoe hike so I stopped to photograph it. The first photo shows the snow around it. You can see that a snowmobile had passed by here recently, but whatever was causing the texture extended onto the tracks. I looked around but didn't see any other areas with this texture.




When I looked closer it looked like the snow was being heated from below. Since I was in a boggy area, I assumed there must be a wet area underneath the snow that was not frozen. I pushed my walking stick through the snow and it was totally wet.



A little further on I saw several large depressions in the snow, all with the same texture. I walked over this area with care because there was probably moving water underneath.
The final photo shows a few of the depressions that have "melted" into the warmer water beneath the snow.


I can understand why many of you made the guesses you did. I am adding the answers to let you know what people perceived the photo to be.


Some of the guesses:

• top of a mushroom
• Macro of a mushroom cap
• sand
• my first thought was sand..then snow..but taking another look at it....could be dough rising too!!!
• skin of an orange or pumpkin
• a really fine powder, with some sort of imprint. Cinnamon maybe
• Bakeapple
• Crop of a cloud at sunset/rise
• Sand ... trap door spider
• chamois (used to dry off your automobile and so on)
• Flower petal
• an orange
• I THINK IT'S A MUSHROOM
• water eddying to a hole
• Looks like a spoon full of coco Or coffee
• Human skin
• Bread dough
• 'wilting petal' of a flower
• A YELLOW DAISY OR MAYBE A SAND PIKE
• fruit-peach
• My initial guess would be a pumpkin
• a (person's) dimple? Others: skin on a peach? A flower petal?
• mushroom or fungus
• fur of an animal
• I am guessing a peach......if not a peach, I am thinking a piece of fruit
• It looks like the dimple on your elbow or knee when the arm or leg is not bent. Is that a close guess? It looks like skin.
• a center of a peach
• It looks like snow to me
• Fur on an animal or skin of a human
• My guess is sugar
• A swarm of fish
• I think it may be drifting snow
• now that really is looking like dough
• It might me someone's skin
• Cloud formation?
• a ball of yeast dough?
• A spot in some fresh snow which had just fallen over a previous footprint or animal print
• it looks like flour on a pastry board that someone has softly blown into!?
• Snow
• Skin on the human body
• A close up of pet fur
• The first thing that jumped into my head was a spider egg
• Would it be flour
• snow
• snow
• A close up shot of the hard shell of a fruit stone, from the inside of such as a plum or peach.
• I did think sand but that is too obvious.
• Cloud formation
• Memory Foam???
• snow
• Looks like fabric, fur, a towel
• I'm thinking clouds on a gloomy day...
• a jelly fish
• sand
• Dough