Images To Trick Your Eye

I have always been interested in optical illusions, images that trick the eye, puzzles within puzzles and any kind of image that challenges my perceptions. This has prompted me to collect them because I find them so much fun!

You must look carefully to see some of these. If you can’t see the illusion leave a comment and I’ll can get back to you.

Please join me as I show you some of that collection. My hope is that I spark an interest in some of you as you enjoy this amazing art form.

This couple is sharing something. What would that be?

This guy is playing music for?

Young lady or old hag?

Face the music.

This person on horseback is being watched.

 Three figures in a boat.



 Rocks painted with snow.

 What do the fox and rabbit have to worry about?

It would be a drag to miss any images here.

Face up to it, you are a ___.

A blood smear?

The bloom.

Plain pipes?

Invisible truck.

The stripes have stripes.

What’s up with the cat?

What do you see in this mountain village?

Spilled puzzle pieces show what?

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Mid-Week Musings

Meeting Your Maker

Diversionary Tactic

Words Of Wisdom

A Fortune To Remember

Stay Off The Course

Not My Job

Cool T-Shirt Design

Fridge Magnet

Music To My……

Good Reason To Learn English

From The Mouths Of…..

Wet Suit + Gas = Woaaaaa

Hope you had a few chuckles on your Hump Day. Be patient, because the weekend approaches faster than you think!

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Dumb Head

This video was sent to me by Jim Mohamed an old friend of mine from my original home Michigan City, Indiana. Look him up on Facebook he’s a nice guy.

This funny song came out in 1963 by Ginny Arnell. The video is not the original art but I like how the person put comic book pictures up with the words to the song included.

 

I found this to be different because of the words. The music is a little dated by hey it’s worth the listen to make sure that you are not a dumb head!

  Dance Robot, dance!

I have a question for you. Do any of you use vinyl anymore? Not collecting records but listening to them too?

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Return To Wonderland

I Am

And Back To Business!

 

I plan to keep blogging in Wonderland and have plenty of new ideas to blog about since I’ve been on my “X imposed time off” going to court this last year.

 

A lot has been happening in the world! The news has been full of stories and along with my interests I have a TON to blog about now. I plan on trying to write a blog a day by this time next month which is how much I was writing before now.

 

Besides my regular blogs I want to continue to write my poems. Whether I will keep writing poetry for Magpie Tales or other sites with prompts, or go my own way I’m not sure yet. Writing for prompts is challenging, fun-tastic and you are guaranteed an audience through the other sites links. It’s a win-win situation.

 

I am working on my book again. I’m considering short stories to write for Wonderland. It all depends on how much I decide to write in the future. If I do write some short stories they would appear like my poems and the blog of the day would be replaced with one of these options.

 

I want to write a good BlogSpot, I hope to get more Google +1’s, so that Google will consider me for ads in the future. I want to attract more Followers and make some money (with ads) on this website one of these days.

 

Thank you my readers for all your comments through the years here and on Windows Live Spaces. If you’re a new reader I ask you to support me by using the +1’s (only if I deserve it) and I love comments good or bad.

 

 

This is how I felt this last year with everything happening at once as Wonderland spun further and further away from me the busier I got with my private life.

 

My site runs itself with me gone and still gets a lot of hits, but I have sorely missed my Followers visiting to leave their comments behind.

 

I am incredibly happy to be back! I can’t wait to catch up with what’s been being published by the sites I follow and comment on those sites. I follow a lot of talented writers and to keep up one must keep publishing new blogs and paying attention to others.

 

 

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So Much More Than Just Spots To Blog

Confluent Forms LLC specializes in creating gorgeous, engaging websites with custom content management systems (CMS, software that enables easy management of your website content without a web developer), but we’ve found that Blogger can be a great platform for web development when a custom CMS isn’t needed. Blogger provides a ton of functionality and design freedom for our clients, and not just for blogs!

I know - unexpected, right? Using blog software for a website?

I think that most users do not realize the value and flexibility that Blogger offers, including free hosting, complete customization, personalized domain options, WYSIWYG editor and more. Because Blogger is a Google product, you can also easily integrate with other Google services such as: Google Analytics, Google Docs, AdSense, Picasa and more. All of this is available free of charge while providing a simple, easy authoring environment for the small business owner.

As a web development firm, Blogger provides us with a different value proposition.


When I pitch a Blogger-based solution to a client:

•I can provide my company’s services to customers at a lower price point while maintaining full creative freedom and giving them a basic but user-friendly CMS

•I don’t need to set up a paid hosting account for my client (avoiding the associated headaches)

•I don’t need to worry, or have the client worry, about security patches or upgrades

•I don’t have to be concerned about uptime and availability

•I can show the client drafts while we develop by keeping the site invitation-only until it is ready to go public

•I can easily transfer ownership and management of the site to my client or keep us both as co-administrators

It can be hard to envision a platform’s potential from a list of features and value propositions, so here is one example of many websites Confluent Forms has done recently for a number of business.  I’ll highlight the unique aspects from a Blogger standpoint as we go.

Pinch

Pinch was our first foray into delivering a custom site using Blogger. Our goals for the project were to create a platform that would enable this small town gallery to showcase new artists whose work they carry, engage the dedicated fans of the gallery with updates, and empower the owner of the gallery to easily keep her site fun, fresh, and beautiful with a fully branded presence. All of the content on each and every page within the site is easily updated by Pinch’s owner without needing to know anything about programming.

While still technically a blog, we think this site is unique in layout, design, branding, and organization. Parts of the site required extra customization - the product category landing pages and the change in layout from the homepage template to the interior page template to the categories page template (such as “Ceramics” in the header). To change the layout we used Blogger’s native if/else functionality combined with the ability to determine page types, and to accomplish the category page design we wrote a script to locate the first image in the article and display it as the thumbnail.

I hope the example above has opened your eyes to some of the possibilities of what you can do with your Blogger site or maybe encourage you to give Blogger a try for your website solution. My company Confluent Forms LLC is lucky to have an exceptionally talented designer that isn’t afraid to push us, but even if you don’t have the ability to create an entirely new site template, perhaps this will encourage you to explore the underlying code of your site and to customize some of the small details to match your real vision you have for your site. You will be pleasantly surprised at how simple it can be and how much you can change it to make your website to do what you want it to. Tee hee!

When I read this off of Google’s Blogger Buzz recently it blew my mind! Not only had I felt exactly like this about using Blogger when I found it for myself but I had also used Blogger for other things and one time I used Blogger to make a website for a job interview thinking they would be awed with my many skills and hire me. Lmao! No kidding though, the kid’s a genius that took action on doing something I toyed with. Timing and execution are everything! I admire David Kutcher’s mind and ideas.

The materials for this came from Google/Blogger Buzz/You Can Do Some Amazing Things With Blogger; it seems our BlogSpot's are so much more than just spots to blog.

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Something More Important To Think About

“Slow Dance” was written by a terminally ill young teenage girl in a New York Hospital. All she asks is that people read her poem and get her message before she passes away.

This young girl has about 6 months left to live. As her dying wish, she wanted to write how she felt about life by telling everyone to live their lives to the fullest; something she will never be able to do.

Her doctor saw the girl’s poem, was touched by it and made sure it got published. It is incredible!

Slow Dance

Have you ever watched kids On a merry-go-round?

Or listened to the rain slapping on the ground?

Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight?

Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?

You better slow down.

Don't dance so fast.

Time is short.

The music won’t last.

Do you run through each day

On the fly?

When you ask How are you?

Do you hear the reply?

When the day is done

Do you lie in your bed

With the next hundred chores

Running through your head?

You'd better slow down

Don't dance so fast.

Time is short.

The music won’t last.

Ever told your child,

We’ll do it tomorrow?

And in your haste,

Not see his sorrow?

Ever lost touch,

Let a good friendship die

Cause you never had time

To call and say; “Hi!”

You’d better slow down.

Don’t dance so fast.

Time is short.

The music won’t last.

When you run so fast to get somewhere

You miss half the fun of getting there.

When you hurry and worry through your day,

It’s like an unopened gift….

Thrown away.

Life is not a race.

Do take it slower

Hear the music

Before the song is over.

This girl will never make it to prom, graduate from high school, or get married and have a family of her own. Yet here she reaches out to teach us an important lesson. How to live…so ironic because it’s something she will never get to do for herself.

God Bless this brave little soul and may her journey be painless! We can all learn something from her wonderful wisdom that she leaves behind her in this world.

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