A four-story brick industrial building rises against a flat grey sky, its facade bearing the faded painted legend: BAKER MFG. CO. — Monitor — WINDMILLS & ENGINES. The cursive Monitor script anchors the sign like a signature — proud once, now dissolving into the brick. Below, a loading dock with a corrugated metal awning shelters a boarded overhead door, on which someone has drawn a small, incongruous smiley face in spray paint. Bare winter branches reach up from the weeds at the base. Every window is dark, each pane a closed eye.

The ghost sign still speaks, though no one’s listening. (Fort Dodge, MAR 2026)

Ricoh GR IV Monochrome

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