This year, the Spring equinox was on March 19th in all U.S. time zones, making it the earliest spring we’ll have seen in our lives (so far). The last time spring arrived this early was in 1896—a whopping 124 years ago!

The weather outside here is now anything but Spring like. There is not even a crocus growing. Tempts tonight will be in the love 20's Fahrenheit. The above Petunia is growing indoors in our Solar Room. It's normally considered an "annual" that only grows for one season. However, this Petunia is left over from last Spring & Summer. My still having the plant, fortunately will now help us go into this Spring & Summer. The goal these days is just to have life - at home anyhow - try to seem as normal as possible.

This petunia is a symbol of more normal times for us all.

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We are indeed living through some unusual times.
Telecommuting since March 9th, my husband joins me in a voluntary self isolation; away from the growing world coronavirus pandemic that has now hit the USA hard. Although our state governor is opposed to a stay-at-home order, local city and county governments are seriously considering implementing one for where we live. We may know tomorrow what they decide. Meanwhile, I feel that each person, who choses to self isolate (with family), will be one less victim for the deadly disease.

The very first confirmed COVID-19 in our Metro was on March 7th. That first case was traveled related.

However just 5 days later, COVID-19 claimed the first life in our Metro on March 12th. That man was a nursing home resident. He contracted coronavirus through local transmission. That meant our area was seeing community spread that needs to be somehow stopped.

Having the luxury of being self employed & able to work from home, I stopped going out at the start of March. Yesterday (the last day of Winter) I decided to document our family "Stay-at-Home" endeavor that seems like it will continue for a while.


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BTW, colors of the flower are showing differently (with less dynamic range) than what they do in Photoshop on my calibrated computer. Detail has been lost on Pbase. I'm not sure why.