optical illusions – Lee Duigon

Faces in trees??

I had a bad night last night, but today’s weather was cool and refreshing, so I went outside to enjoy a cigar.

By and by, I saw something.

At the end of our sidewalks stands a mighty tree, a sycamore… and today it had a face on it. (Uh-oh! He’s getting loopy.) Yeah, I know. But I’m not talking about a new Mount Rushmore.

For this tree has a face. You have to look closely, and then you’ll see it. The mouth is in a grimace, the eyes are scrunched half shut, and the nose is wrinkled. I wash I had a photo.

It won’t be there tomorrow, of course. Things like that never are.

Do you know what your trees get up to, when you aren’t looking?

Rubin's vase (sometimes referred to as "The Two Face, One ...

Is it a black vase, or two white faces? Classic optical illusion!

(This post is a preview of my weekly Newswithviews column.)

It was a clear plastic trash bag full of, well, trash. I knew that. But sitting outside today, on my special chair, I saw it as a face. A weird face: big goggly eyes, fishy mouth, shiny silver earring. Look away, look back–and that face was still there.

I asked my wife to take a look. She saw it, too. Same as the face I saw. I also asked my next-door neighbor–and she couldn’t see any kind of face at all. Same information, different results.

Human nature is very hard to understand.