Friday the 13th "Sayonara Summer" Game

TGIF!! Yay...it's Friday the 13th, and August is almost half over, which means September won't be far behind and October is lingering ominously in the shadows. Soon enough we'll be entering the dark half of the year. So before it gets too late, I wanted to do a summer post. A 'See ya and Good Riddance Summer' kind of post. And as it turns out, I'm in the mood for a little "Friday the 13th" fun and games to start the weekend. So what do you say...do you wanna play a game? A little 'Sayonara Summer Fun'?

Oh I promise it won't be too hard. This is just a little test to see how astute you are to details and how brushed up you are on your gardening. I have a series of photographs of things I snapped in my yard this late Spring/Summer. And today I am posting only a super macro snippet of the big picture for each item. How many items you ask...well 13 of course! And your mission, should you choose to accept it....is to determine just what exactly those snippets are photos of. I'm sure you'll recognize some right off the bat. Others may be more ambiguous. And perhaps you are a 'Backyard Garden Sherlock Holmes', and you'll merely scoff at my lame attempt to trick you.

Remember the movie, "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids"? Well consider yourselves shrunken down really small as you look at these images and try to imagine what you might be looking at if this small section was all that you could see of a MUCH larger object. Then post your guesses in your reply. If you are of the 'Cheater Pants' variety, then of course you can look and see if anyone else has figured it out and just copy their answers....but then what fun would that be? So I challenge you to figure them out for yourself before commenting, and then refrain from reading what anyone else guessed until after you've made your post. You can click on the images to see them larger. And for ease of referencing the photos, just consider the images numbered 1-13 in the order they are posted. (ie. the first image is #1, the second image #2 and so forth on down).

I had contemplated making this a contest. But I wanted to see how astute you all are first, so I'll know whether I have to step it up and make it more difficult, or take it down a notch and make it easier next time. I'm going to do Fall Items next time around and perhaps I'll make that one into a contest for some Halloween goodies. This one will just be for some end of summer Friday the 13th fun. A warm up, if you will. Then either tomorrow (Sat.) or (Sun.) I will post the answers, along with the full sized images of these 13 magical things that I encountered in my yard this Spring/Summer so that you can see just how clever you really are. Good Luck and Happy Friday the 13th everyone! :o)