getting up to this

I'm sure that in part this is smog, in part it's residual particles from last week's fire - probably nothing good is thickening the air.  All the same, it's pretty good to have this view from one's living room early in the morning.  But also ... those trees, particularly the tree between me and the sun, have really grown up tall.  That's blocking our view of the big memento mori in the shape of the Forest Lawn cemetery cross - not, in some ways, a loss, but it's a quite striking change.