Searching for news today? Your horoscope comes up on top. Can a horoscope be news? The Times of India thinks it is and is predicting some long distance travel. The Chicago Sun Times horoscope has a "Moon Alert" which is: We have the all clear to shop and do business. The moon is in Scorpio. Should we thank the moon in Scorpio for opening up the stores?
On the other hand, there is real news in terms of it being sinkhole season. Spring and summer are the worst because frozen water underneath the surface will start to flow again. A sinkhole in Central Saanich B.C. was in the news yesterday. You know the headline: It just opened up! That's because that's what sinkholes do.
There are permanent world wonder sinkholes. The one that comes to mind is the Great Blue Hole - a giant submarine sinkhole in Belize. Here's a picture of the Great Blue Hole - just over a thousand feet across and 407 feet deep and within a massive reef that can be seen from space. It was made famous by Jacques Cousteau in 1971 who brought his ship, the Calypso to chart it.
The top fives is a YouTube channel with video of 5 sinkholes - two of the videos are real-time with the sinkhole consuming a dump trunk, and then opening up in a highway full of cars. The video is Here.
Today's picture is a calmer sight, and was taken last Friday in Queenston. This is the historic town of Laura Secord who saved the country, and William Lyon MacKenzie whose printing press is the oldest in Canada. Here's one of its prettiest heritage houses with an ancient Magnolia tree in the front.
