Ivy With Heartsong And Friends

Benefit Concert for Kaleidoscope Youth Center

Sunday, November 23, 2025 - King Avenue UMC

Good music, good friends, good vibes. - Anonymous

Just a few highlights... 

You don't always have to go to the symphony to hear beautiful music.

Out Under the Sky: Pam Springer, flute. Iris Velasco, piano

Left: A Caribbean Christmas: Handbell Choir and Percussion

Right: You Make It Feel Like Christmas: Brett Gambill, Linda Guyton

Why does music sound better late at night?

Left: I Wish You Christmas: Emily Moore, soloist. Iris Velasco, piano

Right: Christmas Time Is Here: Andy Burns, Trumpet. Iris Velasco, piano

Heartsong And Friends

It wasn't just a concert, it was an experience.

Do You Have Good Eyes?

Optical Illusions 

Here are reader responses and my comments on last week’s Elephant And Lamb Legs:

AVH: 4 elephant legs

Absolutely correct! Logic dictates elephants have four legs, even if it appears  in the drawing that the elephant has more than four… which made ITV wonder.

ITV: Do elephants have eight legs? 

On lamb legs:

AVH: 40 lamb legs if you count the ones that can barely be seen 

I see 36 legs, more or less, either attached to still-headless lambs or loose. But AVH’s response is acceptable because the illusion- foto wasn't great.

This was actually part of a 32-item order from a writer who is promoting her upcoming, book, The Christmas Lamb Mystery, about a "lost lamb" with an accompanying lamb toy.

That feeling when you've

finally finished your work...

The premise is that the story will be read by/read to the child. In the morning, the latter will see the lamb outside the door. It is lost no more.

Delivery of lamb goodies to book author Annetta Dellinger. November 16, 2025

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For this week, try this optical illusion.

Can you read this at first attempt?

Please email your answer (send to me only).

Comment on responses in the next blog.

Elephant And Lamb Legs

 Optical Illusions 

Comments on last week's blog, What Do You Read Here?

Thank you, faithful readers. Some people will read, EVIL, but some will see, GOOD. VEV was discerning enough to see both.

VEV: Good is black. Evil is white. Should be the other way around.

ITV saw GOOD plus something else that I didn't expect. She saw COOL, maybe because she's a cool person.

ITV: Looks like GOOD and COOL. 

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Now, for this week's optical illusion.

This has to be one of the most famously mind-boggling illusions that appears in lots of brain teaser books. How many legs can you see in this picture?

Here’s another teaser for you.

How many lamb legs do you see?

Please email your answers (send to me only).

Comment on responses in the next blog.

What Do You Read Here?

Optical Illusions 

Comments on last week's blog Now You See It, Now You Don't:

ITV: Wooden vs. upholstery? Is the yellow chair new? 

Thanks for responding. You’re right. 

That was my old, ten-year-old something Goodwill wooden, rocking chair buy. The spokes that were coming off had been super-glued. The hardwood seat had been softened by throw pillows. Despite all that, my antique rocker had served me well, giving me a reliable spot for viewing a wondrous backyard vista.

But now, time for something new. An upholstered Wayfair buy, using part of my Bubbly Hall craft sale monies. I love its vibrant yellow color and how my Cinnamoroll throw pillow from Five Below and Keroppi, inherited from Frat Boy, keep me company.

Continuing on to this week’s Optical Illusion…

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Read not only between the lines, but also what is not written. - Vijay Kedia

What do you read here?

Please email your answer (send to me only).

Comment on responses in the next blog.