Nobody home

My boys took me for a hike yesterday (Sunday afternoon) through our neighborhood.  It was remarkable how empty the place was -- it was apparently vacant!  I didn't see another human being for 10 - 15 minutes, either out in the yard, inside a house visible through a window, or even on the local streets.    We saw houses from the front and also from woods behind them.  There was not even evidence of human life: no lights were on or anything, although that is generally not surprising because the sun was out. 

It could have been a "ghost town".  Possibly the only other people I saw the whole time were in cars driving on the larger streets.  The walk took at least an hour.  This is a "family" neighborhood!  The neighborhood where I grew up (also a suburban neighborhood) was never quiet like this, that's for sure!