Guessing Game with Nature - v4-#11: Mystery Necklace or Collar

Today's Picture to Ponder Photo
For the fun of it I am presenting this "necklace" to you as a mystery photo. I'll give you one hint. The "pearls" are cells. You can see what it actually is on my LESSON ONE page for a Photoshop Elements 4.0 course I am currently taking online.
                  
For more fun and to discover where you can find a picture of me at age 11 or 12, keep reading.

Self-Reflecting Queries
At first today's featured Picture to Ponder photo brought to mind the image of a multi-stranded necklace on a blue neck. As I continued viewing it, I began to get the feeling of a "collar." Thinking "collar" suddenly reminded me of my artist friend Judith Schwab's exhibit, "Women Collared for Work."

The latter is a show that Judith conceived, invited several artists to participate in, including herself, and one for which she is currently curator. The artists have used the “Collar” theme to identify women with specific time periods from the 30's to the 80's. Judith's work reflects the 40's and 50's and her "Coming of Age 1, 2 and 3" series features a photo of me, repeated several times, wearing a dress with a Peter Pan collar.

To see photos from the show and to read more about it, go to Judith's site, www.judithschwab.com, and click the Women Collared for Work (Current Show) link. To see the "Coming of Age" series mentioned above, click on the link for 1940-1959 Judith Schwab and then the aforementioned series where you can see the 11-year old Sheila, when I must have been "coming of age."
                        
So, how does this lead into queries for today? I have invited you to check out several links. Whether you do this or not, or how far you go with it, is an opportunity for you to further define for yourself what most interests you.
                        
I had particular fun with today's issue, thinking about it as a creative game of discovery. Making discoveries is one of the things that most lights me up. Games usually do not. Interestingly for me, today I gave myself the freedom to play with you in a guessing game.
                        
Is playfully interacting with another, or group of others, something that you periodically or regularly engage in? If yes, what do you do? If not, is it something you might like to do? What other ways do you have fun?
                        
Are there games you might like to share with us?  If so, I invite you to write about them in the COMMENTS section below. As always, especially today, have fun with this.
                     

Comments

[Jenn]

Who knew Banana Trees were so amazingly beautiful inside?

As for games... as a family, we love letterboxing - it's kind of like a mix between a hike and a treasure hunt.

If I need to refresh myself real quick during the day, I try some of the games here: http://www.orisinal.com These games are beautiful and the music for each is so cool!

It's important to do your work... but it's also important to take time to do fun things - to enjoy your life and have fun!

[Sheila Finkelstein]

What fun, the http://www.orisinal.com site, Jenn! What is letterboxing.

Thanks for sharing and thanks for playing.

[Jenn]

ooooo Letterboxing is this really neat sort of treasure hunt. Basically, people hide a rubber stamp and a pad of paper somewhere on a hiking trail. It can be under rocks, or in a hollowed out tree - where ever it can be relatively safe from the elements.

Then, they post clues at the Letterboxing web site as to where the box is hidden. You take the clues and find the box.

When you find it, you take their stamp, and stamp it on your Letterboxing pad (so you have a record of the boxes you've found). Then, you take your team stamp and stamp the pad that's in the box. You can write a little message to the person who hid the box as well.

It's really neat. You can see in the box who else has found it - people from all over the country do this. The web site is: http://www.letterboxing.org

We have a blast!

[Lauren Strouse]

I loved this photo - it was really intriguing. At first I thought it was sometime of rock - like an agate or something cut in half because the blue looks very metallic, but it also reminded me of being inside some type of domed building look upward, maybe a prehistoric hut or fantasy hut belonging to yet unknown beings. I keep going back to this one and simple "imagining."
Thank you as always!

[Sheila Finkelstein]

Thanks, Lauren. Your interpretations are fun.

DId you go to http://www.sheilafinkelstein.com/PSE4/lesson1.html
to see what it is or are you satisfied simply being with it as is and however it comes up for you? Whichever way is great.

And back at you, thank YOU, as always, for taking the time to respond
and play.