Puzzles

[mark smyth]

Recently in the Narcissus thread mention was made of Narcissus facing the brightest light. Today while driving a plant popped in to my head. One, a native plant, that always moved towards the darker place. What is it? I hope there is only one

[mark smyth]

Two eggs. Who/what laid them?

[Paul T]

Fowl of some description. 

Given the wide range of colours of egg we had from our assorted different types of chickens when I was growing up, both would fit within the realm of chickendom, but I would be guessing by the blu-ish cast on the left egg that it would more likely be some sort of duck, as some of those do tend towards blue-ish eggs..... they look a bit large for some of the bantams that have the same tinge to theirs.  The markings in the darker egg look a lot like a pheasant egg, except that it looks way too big?

If it was a month ago I would have just said "the Easter Bunny!" 

[Lesley Cox]

Parsons?

[mark smyth]

Paul is hot

[ranunculus]

Paul is hot

He quite likes you, too!   

[Ragged Robin]

Hooray!  I thought the puzzle trail had gone cold.....but obviously things are hotting up    My guess is that they look good enough to eat 

[Maggi Young]

I'm puzzling full time about the plant that " always moved towards the darker place." 

Both those eggs are pretty big....       the bluer egg is perhaps a goose egg...too big for a duck... well, any duck I've met!  Unless there's a chicken somewhere with watering eyes, might the lovely big brown speckled egg be from a turkey?  I've never seen a turkey egg!

[Alan B]

They look like chicken eggs by the size.  The brown one i guess could be a breed like marans and the blueish maybe an anacona.

[Maggi Young]

Alan, you have made me trot off to the pantry to examine the eggs there more closely!

Not sure how wide Mark's hands are; I thought the eggs looked pretty big.... but, on placing two eggs 
( fresh from the hens of local Aberdeen SRGC Members  Joan and Chris Rowe  ) on my own hand.... the hens' eggs look bigger than I thought..... my hands are approx. 8cm across the palm ( yes, yes, I know, not very dainty!)
 Click the pic to enlarge and yes, these eggs  look pretty big...... so I'm back to a duck and hen for Mark's eggs.... but as to which varieties, I have no notion..... hope there will be pix to follow of said feathered friends??

[mark smyth]

My hand is 9.5 cm across

[Alan B]

Guess that rules out chickens.

[Ragged Robin]

I don't think the brown speckled one looks pointed enough one end for a pheasants egg but then again if Mark was thinking in the car of of a Pheasants-eye narcissus (N. recurvus) pointing towards the dark that might possibly shed some light on the puzzle, although I'm not eggsactly confident   

[mark smyth]

I'll put you all out of your misery trying to think of what laid the eggs.

Alan was right the eggs belong to a Maran with the chocolate egg
http://www.chickenpictures.co.uk/siteimages/maranhen.jpg

and an Araucana the only chicken to lay a blue egg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__CePmZh0l7w/SCd_7ll1zFI/AAAAAAAABbw/aya3grbD9iE/s400/%2B%2BAraucana%2BHen.jpg

A friend breeds rare breed chickens. The two eggs in my hand are big. All his chooks are free range

[tonyg]

I thought I knew what 'Little Ern' is, but there are more plants with such
hairy stems.
Here is the one I was thinking of and it's having yellow flowers.
If it is not the same, Tony may say what it is 

I know its been a long time but is yours Asarum pulchellum Luit???