Fragmentary Memory of the COVID Years

 

I looked up on the internet that Brock University suspended face to face classes on March 13, 2020 and they did not resume until January 31, 2022. 

I had taught my last class in June 2019. So I did not have to adjust to the distance education procedures, thank goodness.

My memory is that for some 18 months, until we moved to Ottawa in October 2021, pretty much daily, I used to walk up the Niagara Escarpment to roam about the silent and empty campus of Brock University. It was strangely beautiful. All the buildings were locked.

The vast parking lots were mostly abandoned. 

Deer came out of the forest to drink at the sheltered exquisite Raymond Moriyama designed "Pond Inlet" Japanese style lily pad covered pond. 

Sometimes I would see a lone tractor cutting the lawns in the distance.