A promise to help a friend who was out-of-town for the weekend with an early morning task got me out and about in Superior earlier than normal on both Saturday and Sunday mornings.

My morning jaunts were so interesting I stretched them out a bit longer than was absolutely necessary.

Superior was abnormally quiet on both mornings but even more so on Sunday.

Were it not for the COVID-19 pandemic, Superior would have been hopping Saturday morning with the 38th running of the Firekracker 10K (sic) and related events. Because of the pandemic, the event was not held but I saw people out enjoying the...