My photography today took me beyond the below news…

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Saturday US COVID News

Updated Nov. 21, 2020, 7:51 PM CST NBC News
“The country recorded more than 200,000 coronavirus cases over the last 24 hours, bringing the total to 12,002,863, according to NBC News' tally. The total number of deaths is 255,567.”

Nov. 21, 2020 6:35PM CST The Guardian
“US CDC advises against all cruise ship travel… recommended that all people avoid cruise ship travel as the risk of Covid-19 on liners is very high.”

Nov. 21, 2020 4:26PM CST Reuters
“Despite health officials' warnings, more than 1M people flew through U.S. airports on Friday…fueling fears of even greater spread of the virus. It was the second-heaviest domestic air traffic day since the start of the pandemic, despite pleas from health officials for Americans to stay home.”

November has been “a month full of devastating Covid-19 records in the country.
Almost every state has reported a rapid surge in cases, and nationwide numbers have been climbing much faster than ever before -- with the country reporting a staggering 2.9 million infections since the beginning of the month.” CNN

4:42 PM, Nov 21, 2020 Associated Press
“ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Officials are discussing canceling all but the most urgent medical procedures and building a field hospital as the coronavirus surges in Missouri.”

Nov. 21, 2020 12PM CST Business Insider
“Trump skipped a coronavirus meeting
with G20 leaders to play golf”

Etc, etc, etc
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Sobering
There have been at least 12,019,960 cases of coronavirus in the United States, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
The US has added about 2 million new coronavirus cases in the past 12 days.
Johns Hopkins recorded the first case of coronavirus in the United States on January 21. After that ...
• 98 days later, on April 28, the US hit 1 million cases
• 44 days later, on June 11, the US hit 2 million cases
• 27 days later, on July 8, the US hit 3 million cases
• 15 days later, on July 23, the US hit 4 million cases
• 17 days later, on August 9, the US hit 5 million cases
• 22 days later, on August 31, the US hit 6 million cases
• 25 days later, on September 25, the US hit 7 million cases
• 21 days later on October 16, the US hit 8 million cases
• 14 days later, on October 30, the US hit 9 million cases
• 10 days later, on November 9, the US hit 10 million cases
• 6 days later, on November 15, the US hit 11 million cases
• 6 days later on November 21, the US hit 12 million cases
At least 255,414 people have died in the United States from coronavirus since the pandemic began.

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There were seasonal temperatures here today; plus rain. So I spent the day indoors getting some of our Christmas decorations ready to go up.

It looks like the outdoors season may finally be over for 2020. After getting some great photos of Mabel yesterday, I did go outside several times today to check for the groundhogs. I didn’t see Mabel or any of the pups. So maybe today they have finally really gone into hibernation.

Because of the pandemic (with everyday folks needing an emotional escape), most of our neighbors have had their Christmas trees and outside Christmas decorations up since late September/ early October. Based on that, I’m getting a “later” start than most. Instead, I’ve been spending as much time outside as possible while I could; rather than concentrating on indoors things.

However, I’ll now be doing more indoors things as we continue on with the “Safer at Home” epic. Staying as close to home in a small bubble is the safest place at the current time.

Being “out there” for about anything in our community isn’t safe these days. Locally, there are very high & quickly increasing infection, hospitalization, and death rates. Plus a high percentage of people in our area are totally against wearing masks. Post Thanksgiving (for reasons previously mentioned) will probably be even less safe for doing just the errands we all must occasionally run – even with Stay-at-Home isolation. These are trying and dangerous times. It’s going to be a long Winter. A decrease in endorphins from not being out in the sun will make things seem more difficult; even if you're as safe as one can be and not suffering financially as so many are.

I may be late in starting to decorate for Christmas this year, but I plan to leave the holiday lighting up during the dark days of Winter. We’ll need a little a little extra light in our lives until we can enjoy being outside again. It will be interesting to see what the neighbors, who had their Christmas decoration up in September, will do.