Today on Monday Mysteries we’re back at Simba’s Grill, this time to sort out what I saw on the table on Friday.

The mystery was not about the food on the table, though,  but rather what I saw when I looked through my cell phone camera to take photos of the food on the table.

The first photo might not look that puzzling at first, as it appears to be just a photo of my water-glass, with the window decorations in the background:

Water glass, Simba’s Grill

The thing is, almost that entire photo is a reflection in the glass piece that was overtop of the tablecloth on table.  That makes the photo a mix of the reflection from the window (the lines of beads pulled together and the yellow that’s the awning outside) and the reflection of the water-glass (yes, that’s a reflection of the glass you see there), plus the vague flower patterns show through in spots from the tablecloth (which, again, is underneath a piece of glass.)

Oh, and I did turn that photo upside-down to show it to you here. But of course.

But here’s a different look a the reflection in the table, without the water-glass, and without turning the photo upside-down:

Through the table, Simba’s Grill

I think this one is even more puzzling, as it looks like we’re looking through the table to the floor.  But we’re not. Once again, everything there except for the vague flower pattern (from the tablecloth) is a reflection in the glass that sit on top of the tablecloth.  What looks like the floor is the ceiling; that thing that looks like a painting is actually attached to a ceiling tile.

The next photo also involves the glass top on a table, but this time it’s on a neighboring table, and involves a different mystery:

Beads on the table

I should note that this photo is not turned upside-down, but that’s probably obvious from the car you can see through the window. But look at the beads in front of the window.  Then look at the beads on the table — they don’t line up with the real beads.  Except they should, shouldn’t they?  I mean, the beads on the table  are just the reflections of the beads in the window, right?  Except … well,  I don’t quite understand why the reflections are so far off the real things.

So that’s 3 for 3 in oddities showing up in my photos of the tables topped with glass at Simba’s. A worthy topic for a Monday Mystery if ever there was one.