Over the garden wall…actually, no: last Sunday at Copp’s Hill. Halloween just never stops around me. I took these photos while waiting patiently for my youngest to collect dates, ages, and genders from three hundred headstones for a school assignment on life expectancy in Boston through the centuries. I recently upgraded my phone to a Pixel 8 Pro, and as is my wont I spent the time testing its new camera against scenes of dilapidated colonial monuments. In the past I have used a larger mirrorless camera (a Sony Alpha 7R or one of its predecessor models) when I wanted to take “serious” photos, but in theory my little phone can now capture 50-megapixel uncompressed RAW format files, and that’s nominally not much smaller or lower-quality than what I can do with my Sony. The Pixel 8 Pro is certainly easier on my back than a bag with the A7R and my favorite pair of bright lenses. And the resulting DNG files, processed quickly in Adobe Lightroom, do look just like the sort of image that I tend to capture with the Sony, which means they look like I am doing a photo tour of the Upside Down. And that’s a rock fact.