Shimmering on air on the smile of a javelina as an eagle soars over the Sierra Madre where Oaxaca meets the sun . . . first a whimper and then a rustle . . . a taffeta petticoat it must be and part of the costume of a little girl helping to lead the village Día de los Muertos parade past a sea of marigolds . . . down the street and off to the cemetery with a mariachi band playing away and another one in the back behind a cart heaped with who knows how many baker’s dozens of sugar skull cookies and offering breads . . .

a special post that I started adding a few years ago though the captioning up for it I wrote up this week. Previously, these images were scattered in the fall series but I like it better this way. With 28=30 images that’s enough for its’ own post, too.

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/a-special-post-for-dia-de-los-muertos

Cemetery photographed during Dia de los Muertos, Oaxaca, Mexico. Image ca. 2026. Photo credit and copyright No Maps or Foot Tracks.com.

Soaring in the air, as on a highland Scots island somewhere between the Arctic and the sky, the ravens begin to caw in the ancient graveyard . . . one on each shoulder of the angel by the entrance and ten atop the gate . . . where to now . . . for the stars to tell . . . another few days and Samhain . . . then they’ll know.

my series post for today published to my Substack at the link if you’d like to see it.

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/very-eerie-halloween-art-for-samhain

Satan Watching the Sleep of Christ. (detail) ca.1874. Scots. Joseph Noel Paton, painter (1821-1901). Collection of the Kirkcaldy Galleries. via artuk.org.

swishing on air on the last knot of a Persian carpet as the weaver smiles as somewhere far beyond where the southernmost sea blows wild and free the ice starts to move . . . a huge penguin perhaps . . . the widow of the last man alive come back to find him . . . or maybe a polar bear from far away that hopped a ride on the wrong ice floe . . . impossible to know . . . but plumes of something that rise into the air and a spectral sounding kind of splash . . . life’s a mystery . . . maybe your grandbaby will learn of it in her schoolbook . . . maybe not

my series post for today published to my Substack at the link. The pumpkins in the thumbnail are from Parlee Farms in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts.

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/very-eerie-pre-halloween-art-for-1a4

slipping on air as from the depths of a Denali crevasse a moan rises as the scientist begins lowering his instruments down . . . someone fallen down it and the charts saying at least another twenty years . . . but no . . . turned into a wraith and tired of being poked . . . another spot would have been better but too late now . . . get ready . . . happening now . . .

my series post for today published to my Substack at the link if you’d like to see it. Thanks!

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/very-eerie-pre-halloween-art-for-176

Ideas for children’s costumes for a Halloween party, taken from Dennison’s 1921 Bogie Collection. via @dennisonarchivist on Instagram. via Instagram.

sparking on air as in somewhere in rural Europe a broomstick rises into the air . . . an old coven it was that met by the stone circle where the land meets the sky . . . or so said grandmother and she was always right . . . troubled they must be or else they would not rise . . . something brewing somewhere . . . but no . . . the broomstick turned and sweeping away . . . . first to the left and then ahead . . . time to run but here comes another . . .

my series post for today published to my Substack at the link if you’d like to see it. Thanks! https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/very-eerie-pre-halloween-art-for-56b

Sphinxes who guard the entrance to the Elizabeth Street Garden in New York City. Image ca. 2025. Photographer not given but under copyright. @elizabethstreetgarden on Instagram. via Instagram.

sparking on air on the last whine of a werewolf’s screech as the winds pick up and the old cries begin to rise . . . people not listening to the new gods and the ancient ones starting to inch back . . . swirls of sand and dust with the outline of something or someone in silvery robes, a thing that looks like a spear merged with a Victorian pickle fork and a golden crown that sparks off the stars up in the heavens . . . the lord of the mountains and the moon making his return . . . lightning bolts bouncing off up into the clouds and then down making the earth where they hit bounce . . . be careful . . . very careful

my series post for today published to my Substack at the link. https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/very-eerie-pre-halloween-art-for-8bf

Winslow family mausoleum, Bellevue Cemetery, Lawrence, Massachusetts USA. Byzantine Revival so built in the mid 1920s. American. 2022 image via sipseyheadstonecleaning on Instagram. via Instagram.