The bluebonnets popped up as ever this year, but the annual family portraits along the blooming Texas roadsides did not.

There was no first pitch for the world champion Washington Nationals — their stadium has been turned into a center for feeding those in need. Passover dinners were attended by laptops, not loved ones, and Holy Week services were held in parking lots, if not on computer screens.

The teenager who becomes a family’s first high school graduate probably won’t walk across a stage. Prom dresses will mostly sit in closets. Marathons that were trained for will have to wait. Weddings may be rescheduled, or they may happen in silent living rooms.

Along with the horrific loss of life and the toll of millions of jobs, this socially distanced Easter represents an entire season of traditions and transitions altered, disrupted or canceled. Spring, normally a season of hope, instead has become a period of endless lost things.