no idea

A piece of wool or other fiber?

dirt/lint from the vacuum cleaner bag

Scrubbie made of netting?

Teddy bear?

a used up scouring pad.
dryer lint.
a grill cleaning pad.

dryer lint?

an old chew toy for a dog?

Pollen?

Smoke bush in bloom?

Sue

mold on used coffee grounds from Starbucks. ;)

Either carpet or whole grain bread! :)

Nope, nope, nope......

Flamingo gets the "Closest" award.

Sea sponge ???

Dust? You must have an amazing camera, Alisande. You'd be dangerous with an electron microscope!

Following flamingo's suggestion - it resembles a relative of the dust bunnies I keep finding under my bed. That old lady so many of us have mentioned never remembers to dust under the headboard.

It does look rather dusty, doesn't it? But it's rather pristine, actually.

Thanks, FlameyÂI love my camera, but in this case I have to give equal credit to the closeup lens I snapped on for the occasion. Yes, I find the idea of an electron microscope verrry appealing!

dried peat moss

yeah, dried moss.

Yeah, you're wrong. :-)

It's not from a Magnolia tree is it? A blossom from something else?

A seed of some kind?

Kittywhiskers

A/C Filter or Vacuum Filter

Gayle

seed

a stamen or is it pistle? lol

I thought it looked like frost on a hamburger.

A puff ball or other fungus.

Ron

Is kittywhiskers right? A seed of some kind?

Do we have to wait until tommorrow?? You're right, it's kinda hard!

Can you put a reference object next to it, like a dime or a straight pin? Or a ruler. I want to play CSI.

A really messed up piece of carpeting?

kitty barf?

Looks like a moldy old hamburger pattie....

LOL LOL BAWAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah "looks like a moldy old hamburger pattie........lol hahahahahahahahahaha

still laffin...........

Sorry I wasn't here to rescue all you valiant guessersÂI was at the ER getting my thorn-infected hand looked at.

Way to go, Ron!!! You're rightÂit's the interior of a puffball.

Here's the "hint" I was going to post tomorrow. Looks kinda like a fish, doesn't it? Thanks to everyone for guessing!

{{!gwi}}

Congrats, Ron, for being so perceptive ... or a good guesser.

I thought a piece of carpet ...

... or, more likely, pile on a sweater.

o j

OK! What's a puffball?
Gayle

You know, I was wondering if everyone would know what a puffball is. It's a fungusÂa toadstool of sortsÂround, with no obvious stem. Its skin gets brittle as it ages, and eventually bursts, releasing dustlike spores from which it reproduces.

The one I found had just started to crack, and the spores were still inside, intact.

A creampuff is different. That's the '96 Chevy Impala SS that I yearn for. :-)

Hey Ron, way to go. How did you ever guess that?
Leslie

Isn't Ron just the smarty pants! He knows because we have them growing all around our place. We get the giant ones like the size of basketballs! They also can be small like marbles. When they are fresh and new they are totally white and edible. Very light and fluffy. We'll post a pic when we get some.

Sue

Oh, wow I can't believe I got that.
Yeah, we eat anything out here on the farm; weird looking mushrooms, cute chickens, you name it.
I do have to disagree with you, Susan, about your definition of a creampuff. It's a '69 Mustang Mach1.

Ron