MYSTERY PHOTO: Outdoor room with a view

This looks like a nice, relaxing spot, but where is this photo taken from? For bonus points, why might it be relevant in today’s issue?  Send your best guess to editor@charlestoncurrents.com. And don’t forget to include your name and the town in which you live.

Our last Mystery Photo, “White flower among azaleas,” proved to be more difficult than we expected.  It showed the white flower of a wild blackberry growing between azalea leaves. (We believe it is actually a dewberry, a type of blackberry.  The berries — if you can get them before the birds snatch them — tend to be smaller and sweeter than traditional blackberries and they bear fruit sooner.)

We got all sorts of other guesses for the berry’s flower, from specialty roses to dogwood.   Three readers — Bruce Jayne of Saluda, N.C., Carol Ann Smalley of Charleston and April Gordon — pegged the flower as that of a dewberry.  Jayne wrote: “The blossom appears to be a dewberry, a cousin to the blackberry which grows on a low-lying vine, and blooms earlier. There appear to be some berries forming to the right of the bloom.”  Gordon added, “It’s a dewberry, a ground version of blackberries that blooms this time of year.”

Congratulations also to these readers who said the flower was of a blackberry:  Jay Altman of Columbia; Kristina Wheeler of Charleston; and George Graf of Palmyra, Va. 

• Send us a mystery:  If you have a photo that you believe will stump readers, send it along (but make sure to tell us what it is because it may stump us too!)   Send it along to editor@charlestoncurrents.com.