May 4 2020 - UFOs on May the Force be with you Day

What happened last week on the UFO front?  The Pentagon declassified three well-known UFO videos and acknowledged their existence as interactions with UFOs. Did you know that those who think that UFOs are proof of extraterrestrial life are known as 'believers'.  Tom DeLong, former guitarist and singer for Blink-182 is likely the best known believer -  he founded a private company that collects and researches the area.  He weighed in on the release of the information last week as monumental. I listed to the Matt Galloway interviews on the CBC radio as I travelled around taking pictures of orchards.  I probably haven't thought about UFOs since Close Encounters and ET.  I decided this was a wonderful hopeful topic, compared to our current crisis. So here's the believers 'sub channel' on  redit at https://www.reddit.com/r/UFObelievers/ with this mission: 🛸r/UFOBelievers👽 is a community made up of Ufologists, Astronomers, Researchers and other professionals from Europe, Canada and the United States. UFOB has a single goal in mind - to provide information and educate individuals who have an interest in the subject of Ufology but cannot fulfill it on the mainstream / establishment media. Our mission is to make disclosure a reality. Our Discord - https://discord.gg/Pa7SGQm Our Subreddits - r/UFODisinformation r/UFOAstronomy  The Washington Post's article is titled UFOs exist and everyone needs to adjust to that fact and looks at the issues involved in treating UFOs as meaning extraterrestial life in comparison to being security  and safety questions/issues. "The question with the announcement is why official organs of the state are now acknowledging that UFOs exist. They are doing so because enough pilots are reporting UFOs and near-air collisions so as to warrant better record-keeping. They are not saying that these UFOs are extraterrestrials, but they are trying to destigmatize the reporting of a UFO." The Navy has retitled UFOs to UAPs - unidentified aerial phenomena.   I don't know the significance of this - it makes me think the 'things' may not be 'flying' - scientifically curious. Likely it signifies that the sightings don't involved any objects. The press thinks this announcement lacks newsworthiness and that it provides a distraction  to current problems.  The 'threat' of extraterrestrials seems to be considered a low security risk.   The skeptics and others alike are fascinated by the possibilities.  Being able to explore these phenomena as signs of extraterrestrial life is to explore "bigger, more philosophical questions". Nick Pope who spent years investigating UFOs for the U.K. ends the Matt Galloway interview with: "Let's have that conversation. It would be interesting and it would be fun." Here's a section of Stewart Road at Seaway Nurseries with its peach trees blooming as far as you can see in both directions.  And then a closer view of a John Street orchard's very old trees.

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May 2 2020 - Golf Courses Get Distancing Markers?

The power of gardens and gardening has asserted itself in Ontario.  Garden centres will be open starting Monday.  This is for curbside service and delivery. What else makes the threshold?  Not hair salons.  It is auto dealers, car washes, more construction sites.  The key news? Marinas and golf courses can 'get ready'. You can't imagine how deeply disheartened golfers are as the trees blossom and the lawns green up.  Ontario Golfers seeing those dandelions blooming this week probably had a gut-wrenching moment.  Perhaps memories of a wonderful experience just a year ago. Calgary golfers?  Opening weekend now.  Manitoba?  They start opening Monday.  B.C. golfers?  They are like B.C. gardeners.  There are 100 golf courses that remained open during the lockdown.  Remember their spring?  Their spring  started before COVID-19 lockdowns. The 'weighing-in' on the benefits of opening up is freely shared on social media. When it comes to sharing the risks, the advice is naive, flippant and even stupid.  It's a good thing golf courses were locked down - here's what muskokahighlands.com advised on March 19 2020:  "If you are going to play, Dreher said it’s advisable to disinfect your clubs and any equipment before and after you play. And when you arrive at the course, if there’s a valet waiting to take your clubs to the staging area, you may want to wave him off and take your clubs yourself. “You want to do as much as you can to keep that 6 feet of distance between people, so reducing your risks,” Dreher said. “If you’re in a group, that means keeping that distance, covering any coughs, walking the course instead of using carts that may be touched multiple times throughout a week, avoiding locker rooms or dining areas, maybe leave the flag or pin in.” So, it’s not advisable to give your buddy’s new driver a try. Can you imagine saying things like 'waving away the valet' and 'not trying your buddy's new driver'?  Given there's no update on the website, we might wonder how things will go. How will we prepare for distancing on the golf course?  Our retail spaces have new designs on the floors - with lots of markers to guide distanced foot traffic.  Wouldn't that be hysterical on golf courses?  Great orange circles all over would make a wonderful aerial art piece.   With the delusional and illusional in mind, I used  a Georgia O'Keefe filter - her beautiful wiggly brush strokes - to create the psychedelic sense of the current social scene. This is the massive Magnolia tree at the old experimental station on Niagara Street, St. Catharines.

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Super School Ahead

There will be a new super-high school built just across from Peninsula Ridge Winery.  Three high schools will become surplus properties - in Smithville, Beamsville and Grimsby. The first right of refusal goes to publicly funded school boards, followed by the lower tier municipality, upper tier municipality and then finally private developers.  Every time I exit the Canadian Tire plaza and see the Grimsby Secondary School at the end of the street under the escarpment, I wonder how tall a condo development might be built there.  We are under pressure of the Ontario government's intensification plan.  This is contentious in a small town that wants to stay small and not grow tall. In Beamsville's case the main portion of the school school has been designated as a heritage building, so is protected from demolition. But don't think that will invalidate development. The news article quotes a town councillor:  "All of a sudden we find ourselves with 13 acres of prime land."  What they mean is prime real estate for which they receive no property taxes.  There's a sign on Highway 8 at the location of the new super school, which is slated to open in September 2020.  the location straddles the Grimsby and Beamsville borders, and is the location of the Beamsville Brick Factory, founded in 1875. What is located below will be interesting. The blossoms have started to show.  We've had very cool, misty weather, and they typically come out with the warmth.  So a burst will likely take place in the next few days.  The weeping cherry on Niagara Street in St. Catharines seems to always be early.