I swapped a couple of the either-or words for reasons that will become clear tomorrow :)
This is the end of a cord on one of the girls' toys :) For some annoying reason I couldn't get the focus on the ends of the string properly, so I went with focussing on the string itself instead.
My camera does that sometimes too. It seems to get fooled by the fact that the smaller parts of my pictures are not the same distance from the camera as the larger parts- and yet they could be exactly at the same distance. I thought the same thing as Mags- that it was a tropical plant or something at first. Nice shot.