How the Pandemic is Affecting My Hometown

I’ve spent most of my time during shelter-in-place secluded at home. I’ve been doing what a lot of photographers have been doing and taking pictures around the house and backyard. This past weekend I finally had had enough and needed to get out of the house and take some pictures of the local area. I felt it was important to preserve the impact the pandemic has had on my local town in pictures.

Roseville is best known for its Automall and the large shopping mall. I didn’t drive by the Automall but I did go to the popular local church and a couple of restaurants. Also, I took a walk through downtown Roseville to see how the local shops and restaurants were dealing with the crisis. The place was a ghost town with only a handful of people out and about on a beautiful spring day. The last places I visited were a strip mall with lots of popular restaurants and one of our movie theaters.

It’s such an eerie feeling to see a normally bustling society shrink back inside its walls. Life is scary and unpredictable at the moment, but it has also been simplified. I think the one silver lining that will emerge at the end of all of this will be the appreciation for the quieter aspects of life: spending time with family; enjoying a meal at a restaurant with friends; watching a ball game on a lazy Sunday afternoon. Perhaps a lot of us will realize that all the stress and constant motion in our previous lives were unnecessary?

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you and yours stay safe and healthy during these precarious times.

David