Scanned and rescued from a portion of an old low-end, lo-res 3-inch Polaroid print discovered deep in an old box today.

Something of a mystery surrounds this image that I came across this week while attempting to review and sort and declutter some of the decades-old imagery and other detritus in my workspace. Jump to HHR for more of the story.
Mountain View Cemetery:
And the adjacent communications towers:
And don’t forget to pick up a copy of Katie Mack’s “The End of Everything” — one of my favorite reads* of the pandemic era.
*P.S. If you do read Mack’s book, whatever you do, do NOT overlook the frequent footnotes!
Charlie (May 11, 2013 – January 21, 2021). AKA: Charlie Barker, Charles Barkley, Charlie-Dawg, Charles the Reticent, Charles the Intransigent, Charles the Vigilant, Charles the Reluctant, Charles the Recalcitrant, Shade-Dog and many more appellations.
And a note of sympathy to sister Jan, who lost her cat Violet just a few days after Charlie departed this mortal coil.
The family poet, Dennis, tells us that despite not being invited to the Biden Inauguration he had nevertheless prepared a poem with such an eventuality in mind: