The Covid Garden

by Reno Davenport

Description - In March 2020, our normal lives and our hobbies all came to a halt. Our local area was under a complete shutdown order from public health. My daytime job is Director of Tennis at a small tennis club in San Jose, CA. My hobby is landscape and wildlife photography in various parts of the world. My wife has retired, and her hobby is traveling. My club was forced to close due to the Covid shutdown restrictions in our county (Santa Clara County, California, USA.). All travel was cut off and all our planned trips for the next 2 years had to be canceled. The following is how my wife, Paula, described our response:

We are travelers. We love different countries and cultures and languages and foods. But our favorite pastime of exploring the world was abruptly brought to a halt when Covid hit. Suddenly we were “trapped” in a much smaller world—one that was defined by the property line of our own home. For the first few months, we waited patiently while doing chores around the house and reading the news voraciously. Then my wife had the idea of a Covid Garden using my pictures. We were featured in an international photo magazine, have had hundreds of people come by and admire what she has done, and she is planning the next iteration as I write this.

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