This was early in the pandemic (Spring of 2020) and we didn't know how COVID was spread, so we (and almost everyone around us) was masking up everywhere except inside our homes. The town felt abandoned and sad and we kept our distance from others as we went to different neighborhoods to take our photos.
This spring (2023), I made a collage of some of the photos which now hangs in our house. It's a great historical record of the time; signs to remind us of social distancings, signs about lake of supplies, sweet small business signs, protect signs and riot pictures, as well as amazingly hopeful neighborhood things (my neighbors hearts made of flower petals and placed on her front yard, stuffed animals in windows for the kids, black lives matter signs and hopeful sidewalk chalk quotes). Those kind and sweet signs carried me through.