Today was another very late start for us thanks to antihistamines. I appreciate antihistamines because I am grateful to be breathing during this extended pollen attack, and I appreciate the sleep, but…yeah. Running late.
Interestingly when I got out (at 7 am, whoa, SO LATE) what I noticed were the bird calls. Earlier, at five or six, there are a few here and there but this morning there were a lot and they were everywhere. It was a nice reminder that the bigger story around us — the seasons and the animals and the weather — keeps going regardless.
At seven, there are also a lot more people around. A few I recognized as long-time regulars from times I’ve been out this late in the past, but more than a few I don’t know who might be recent additions to the routine, usually in groups of two (is two a group? I do not think so but I can’t call them “couples” because they might not be “a couple” …language is too much for me this morning, clearly).
Day two (three?) of the stay-in-place order has not dramatically affected morning traffic, though. It is down significantly from normal, non-plague times but still as steady as it has been for the past week. Small herds of cars hitting their brakes, grouped together by the timing of the stoplights, roaming over the otherwise empty landscape. Where are all these people going?
I’m set to stay in for another three days, at least, before I run out of necessities.