An envisioning. 1961, nine in the morning and a third cup of tea brewing in the kitchen of the farm outside Kingsford.

Oh to be here.

Early spring and the crocus and tulips getting ready to pop right out of the muck, if only it ever stops snowing in Saskatchewan.

my new short fiction piece published to my Substack if you’d like to read the rest

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/an-envisioning-1961-nine-in-the-morning

A model wearing a Henri Bendel evening gown with a jeweled bodice, surrounded by gifts hanging from ribbons. Jewels are from Trabert and Hoeffer-Mauboussin. Photographed by John Rawlings for the December 1, 1941 issue of Vogue. Condé Nast Archive on Instagram.

Window shopping where Joan Crawford goes. Adrian’s fashion house, owned by the Adrian who designed costumes for MGM. Also did Judy Garland’s ruby slippers and the flying monkeys wings for “The Wizard of Oz.”

Main entrance/exterior view of Adrian’s fashion house, Royal Oaks California USA. June 1939 image that was published as part of an article in a 1942 issue of Architectural Digest. American. Black and white photographic print. Maynard L. Parker, photographer. Image courtesy of The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Fair use license. via https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p15150coll5/id/4875
Interior with the woman in the black dress in the background standing next to a very large mannequin dressed as a Victorian lady being a  live model/living mannequin. Adrian’s fashion house, Royal Oaks California USA. June 1939 image that was published as part of an article in a 1942 issue of Architectural Digest. American. Black and white photographic print. Maynard L. Parker, photographer. Image courtesy of The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Fair use license. via https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p15150coll5/id/4868
View looking past the stairs, the woman in the black dress being the same live model/living mannequin standing next to same large mannequin in Victorian clothing holding the same parasol. Adrian’s fashion house, Royal Oaks California USA. June 1939 image that was published as part of an article in a 1942 issue of Architectural Digest. American. Black and white photographic print. Maynard L. Parker, photographer. Image courtesy of The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Fair use license. via https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p15150coll5/id/4869
View shot from the Victorian clothing clad mannequin’s location looking towards the front of the shop with desks for sales staff on either side of the stairs with a couch and coffee table for customers on the left along with a display of high heeled shoes next to the desk on the left. Adrian’s fashion house, Royal Oaks, California USA. June 1939 image that was published as part of an article in a 1942 issue of Architectural Digest. American. Black and white photographic print. Maynard L. Parker, photographer. Image courtesy of The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Fair use license. via https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p15150coll5/id/4870
Hat department, Adrian’s fashion house, Royal Oaks, California USA. June 1939 image that was published as part of an article in a 1942 issue of Architectural Digest. American. Black and white photographic print. Maynard L. Parker, photographer. Image courtesy of The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Fair use license. via https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p15150coll5/id/4871
Space with couches, coffee tables and a hat being displayed with ? handbags over on the right. Where customers would sit while the living model (s) modeled evening gowns or other garments so a customer could make her selection. Adrian’s fashion house, Royal Oaks, California USA. June 1939 image that was published as part of an article in a 1942 issue of Architectural Digest. American. Black and white photographic print. Maynard L. Parker, photographer. Image courtesy of The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Fair use license. via https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p15150coll5/id/4872
Close up detail of the same space showing the stage over on the right with its columns with Ionic capitals where the living mannequins modeled the evening gowns. Adrian’s fashion house, Royal Oaks, California USA. June 1939 image that was published as part of an article in a 1942 issue of Architectural Digest. American. Black and white photographic print. Maynard L. Parker, photographer. Image courtesy of The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Fair use license. via https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p15150coll5/id/4873

Another view of the exterior of Adrian’s fashion house. Delmar Shoes was not part of Adrian’s fashion house and was a separate retail business as far as I can tell. Adrian’s fashion house, Royal Oaks, California USA. June 1939 image that was published as part of an article in a 1942 issue of Architectural Digest. American. Black and white photographic print. Maynard L. Parker, photographer. Image courtesy of The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Fair use license. via https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p15150coll5/id/4874

What gorgeous Art Deco/Art Moderne. The opposite of shopping at Target for sure.

Learn a bit more about Adrian here https://cinemascholars.com/scholars-spotlight-costume-designer-gilbert-adrian/#google_vignette

“Dollhouses and other miniature worlds,” April 2nd issue in the MMXXVI spring show . . .

meandering on air as in the pet shop window the tropical fish in the aquarium swim back and forth . . . a race and then back again . . . needing something new and tired of hiding in the little castle behind the plastic seaweed . . .

my series post for today

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/dollhouses-and-other-miniature-worlds-3de

High voltage tower made from aqua blue toothbrush bristles sprouting from a toothbrush from the series Out of Disorder (Brushes of The World). 2017. Japanese. Plastic. Takahiro Iwasaki, artist. via artsy.net.

“Dollhouses and other Miniature Worlds” series post for April 1 2026 . . .

dancing on air on the last hint of pink at the end of a rainbow as the red wriggles free . . . where to next . . . another rainbow somewhere but having to wait . . . well not that bad . . . a tree to nap under and a prod when it’s time . . . maybe enough time for a swim . . . oh no . . . the rainbow god again . . . no rest for the weary . . .needed again this time over the beach . . . maybe a rest tomorrow . . . one can only hope . . .

my spring series post for today, 21 images carefully curated by myself. From a 1300 odd image master file with the images within the post carefully curated, too. Wouldn’t do to have two rubied up bees next to each other.

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/dollhouses-and-other-miniature-worlds-4da

Lizard. Paper sculpture. 2018. English. Lisa Lloyd, artist. lisalloyd.net. via thisiscolossal.com.

Sick and tired of counting up the money in the vault at the bank. Off for a week to shovel in the cotton candy and dance to the music at the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition, which was held in Omaha, Nebraska, June 1st to November 1st, 1898.

Bandstand, Trans-Mississippi Exposition of 1898 in Omaha, Nebraska USA. Postcard. John Ross Key, artist. L. Prang and Company, publishers. Louis Prang and Company Collection, Boston Public Library. In the public domain due to age. via https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:w66347128
North from Administration Arch. Trans-Mississippi Exposition of 1898, Omaha, Nebraska USA. Image © 1898 F. A. Rinehart, Omaha. Collections of the Nebraska State Historical Society. https://nebraska.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_5421bb8a-8fb7-4529-9ebf-9d1cf844e691/
Crowd in bleachers: Sitting in the bleachers waiting for the next thing to start: Black and white photograph of people sitting in bleachers as part of the Congress of the American Indian in conjunction with the Trans-Mississippi International Exposition. The photograph is labeled “Crowd in bleachers”. 1898 photograph. Under © CC BY-NC 4.0. via the Nebraska State Historical Society Crowd in bleachers: Sitting in the bleachers waiting for the next thing to start: Black and white photograph of people sitting in bleachers as part of the Congress of the American Indian in conjunction with the Trans-Mississippi International Exposition. The photograph is labeled “Crowd in bleachers”. 1898 photograph. Under © CC BY-NC 4.0. via the Nebraska State Historical Society https://nebraska.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_9bbf0d59-7de8-4015-a547-6e3e78cb4476/
Indian (sic) Day Parade, August 4, 1898: People participating in a parade for the Congress of the American Indian in conjunction with the Trans-Mississippi International Exposition held in Omaha Nebraska USA. August 4 1898 image. 1898 photograph. Under © CC BY-NC 4.0. via the Nebraska State Historical Society https://nebraska.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_4369dfdf-e58c-404f-9def-09ae76a541fd/
Western Electrical Company’s display of electric light fixtures at the the Trans-Mississippi Exposition held in Omaha Nebraska USA. 1898 image. F. A. Rinehart, Photos, Omaha photographer. Under ©. via the Nebraska State Historical Society https://nebraska.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_22a46e90-e89d-4570-bb71-203d905a5a2d/
Group of People in the “Streets of Cairo” Exhibit at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition. held in Omaha Nebraska USA. 1898 glass plate negative. F. A. Rinehart, Photos, Omaha photographer. Under ©. via the Nebraska State Historical Society https://nebraska.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_a4782874-d52f-496b-8ff1-adf42c897c8d/

Visions of a California that isn’t coming back, including photographs of the Hotel Coronado where Mrs. Simpson is supposed to have met the future Duke of Windsor while going through a receiving line with her United States Navy officer first husband. ca. 1900-1910. From an album for sale by rare book dealer James Arsenault.

Tent City on Coronado Beach. San Diego, California USA. Image ca. 1900-1910. American. From a photo album that was probably kept by professional portrait and landscape photographer Bradford “Dan” Jackson with several of the photographs inscribed ‘B. D. Jackson, Landscape photographer, 880 Ortega Street, Los Angeles, California’ on the back. Image © 2026 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/8941/bradford-d-jackson-comp-photog/album-of-sixty-six-photographs-of-southern-california-subjects
Camping scene on Mount Wilson (picturing a woman cooking and a girl reading in a hammock). San Gabriel Mountains, California USA. Image ca. 1900-1910. American. From a photo album that was probably kept by professional portrait and landscape photographer Bradford “Dan” Jackson with several of the photographs inscribed ‘B. D. Jackson, Landscape photographer, 880 Ortega Street, Los Angeles, California’ on the back. Image © 2026 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/8941/bradford-d-jackson-comp-photog/album-of-sixty-six-photographs-of-southern-california-subjects
Tent City, Coronado Beach. San Diego, California USA. Image ca. 1900-1910. American. From a photo album that was probably kept by professional portrait and landscape photographer Bradford “Dan” Jackson with several of the photographs inscribed ‘B. D. Jackson, Landscape photographer, 880 Ortega Street, Los Angeles, California’ on the back. Image © 2026 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/8941/bradford-d-jackson-comp-photog/album-of-sixty-six-photographs-of-southern-california-subjects
1318: Scene in Tropical Court, Hotel Coronado, San Diego, California USA. Image ca. 1900-1910. American. From a photo album that was probably kept by professional portrait and landscape photographer Bradford “Dan” Jackson with several of the photographs inscribed ‘B. D. Jackson, Landscape photographer, 880 Ortega Street, Los Angeles, California’ on the back. Image © 2026 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/8941/bradford-d-jackson-comp-photog/album-of-sixty-six-photographs-of-southern-california-subjects
Scene showing tourists riding on a camel. Venice Beach, California USA. Image ca. 1900-1910. American. From a photo album that was probably kept by professional portrait and landscape photographer Bradford “Dan” Jackson with several of the photographs inscribed ‘B. D. Jackson, Landscape photographer, 880 Ortega Street, Los Angeles, California’ on the back. Image © 2026 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/8941/bradford-d-jackson-comp-photog/album-of-sixty-six-photographs-of-southern-california-subjects
278: Westlake Park, Los Angeles, California USA. Image ca. 1900-1910. American. From a photo album that was probably kept by professional portrait and landscape photographer Bradford “Dan” Jackson with several of the photographs inscribed ‘B. D. Jackson, Landscape photographer, 880 Ortega Street, Los Angeles, California’ on the back. Image © 2026 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/8941/bradford-d-jackson-comp-photog/album-of-sixty-six-photographs-of-southern-california-subjects
771 Twin palms near Pasadena, California USA. Image ca. 1900-1910. American. From a photo album that was probably kept by professional portrait and landscape photographer Bradford “Dan” Jackson with several of the photographs inscribed ‘B. D. Jackson, Landscape photographer, 880 Ortega Street, Los Angeles, California’ on the back. Image © 2026 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/8941/bradford-d-jackson-comp-photog/album-of-sixty-six-photographs-of-southern-california-subjects
249 Avalon Catalina Island. California USA. Image ca. 1900-1910. American. From a photo album that was probably kept by professional portrait and landscape photographer Bradford “Dan” Jackson with several of the photographs inscribed ‘B. D. Jackson, Landscape photographer, 880 Ortega Street, Los Angeles, California’ on the back. Image © 2026 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/8941/bradford-d-jackson-comp-photog/album-of-sixty-six-photographs-of-southern-california-subjects
267 New bath house, Long Beach, California USA. Image ca. 1900-1910. American. From a photo album that was probably kept by professional portrait and landscape photographer Bradford “Dan” Jackson with several of the photographs inscribed ‘B. D. Jackson, Landscape photographer, 880 Ortega Street, Los Angeles, California’ on the back. Image © 2026 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/8941/bradford-d-jackson-comp-photog/album-of-sixty-six-photographs-of-southern-california-subjects

An envisioning. 2022 and March inching into April, with the crocus coming up blush pink at the house on Bluebird Lane.

Oh to be here.

The Cascades and a mountain peak to hike up, if one should feel so inclined, being visible from each corner of the yard. Flowers starting to leap right out of their beds. The occasional bunny rabbit mother sneaking out from her burrow looking for lunch for her little ones, but not competing with the red robin mother in her nest outside the dining room window, what with rabbits not being that fond of earthworms and robins not caring for baby asparagus with the occasional pale pink radish on the side.

my new short fiction piece published to my Substack at the link if you’d like to read the rest,

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/an-envisioning-2022-and-march-inching

The image is

Front cover of Diana Stobo’s Get Naked Fast! A guide to stripping away the foods that weigh you down. Published in 2010. It’s on the subject of a raw food diet. This version of the cover is from the author’s website and is copyright Diana Stobo LLC © 2021, but I found it here https://archive.org/details/dianastobosgetna0000stob/mode/2up

Perk up your afternoon by learning to square dance. Imagery from various California archives. Admittedly I can’t remember how to square dance because where I grew up it was an elementary school gym class thing. Love the big gingham skirted dresses, though.

Los Angeles Sports Arena, Los Angeles, California USA (Associated Square Dancers). September 20, 1959 image. American. Felix Paegel, photographer for the Los Angeles Examiner Newspaper. Under © for other than personal use. Fair use license. University of Southern California Special Collections. https://digitallibrary.usc.edu/asset-management/2A3BF1OPRIQ2X?&WS=SearchResults&Flat=FP
Booked for April 7 Dance Festival: Photograph caption dated March 28, 1962 reads, “The famous North Hollywood dancing group that calls itself the Hollywood Square Dancers are busy rehearsing for their April 7 appearance at the Philharmonic Auditorium. Here, director homer Garrett, rear, does the calling as, from left, Shirley Green and Carl Hakkila and Sharon Garrett and Frisco Estes do just one of the ‘steps’ they’ll display in the International Folk Dance Festival. On that Saturday, actress Greer Garson will be the commentator as more than 300 dancers, singers and musicians from 20 nations present the 15th annual folk festival.” North Hollywood, California, USA. March 28, 1962 image. American. Jeff Goldwater, photographer for the Valley Times newspaper. Under © for other than personal use. Fair use license. Valley Times Collection, TESSA, Digital Collections of the Los Angeles Public Library. https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/collection/photos/id/49137

New ‘A Square D’ directors.” Caption dated July 18, 1960 reads, Mr. and Mrs. George Burton of Van Nuys, new directors of ‘A Square D’ sample punch at square dance ‘graduation’ party. They will direct activities of more than 70 valley square dance clubs in first district during the coming year.” They are wearing gingham square dancing outfits made from the same gingham fabric and the dolls in front of Mrs. Burton are costumed in the same gingham. California USA. July 18, 1960 image. American. Photographer not given but shot for the Valley Times Newspaper. Under © for other than personal use. Fair use license. Valley Times Collection, TESSA, Digital Collections of the Los Angeles Public Library. https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/collection/photos/id/57023

Twirl your honey: Photograph caption dated August 17, 1960 reads, “Square dance caller Clyde Drivere and wife, Joyce, of Chatsworth, left, show Mr. and Mrs. Bob Pothier of Northridge square dance steps atop old chuck wagon near Peterson’s Barn in Thousand Oaks. Drivere teaches class, known as Pi R Squares at 8 p.m. every Tuesday in barn, located at end of James road Thousand Oaks.” Thousand Oaks, California, USA. August 17, 1960 image. American. Photographer not given but shot for the Valley Times Newspaper. Under © for other than personal use. Fair use license. Valley Times Collection, TESSA, Digital Collections of the Los Angeles Public Library. https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/collection/photos/id/49100
Y-Knots will twirl at dance: Photograph caption dated June 7, 1960 reads, “No wings – Y-Knot Twirlers, Jeanette Ronser, Reseda, left, and Sharon Garrett, North Hollywood, fly through air with ease, guided by Ralph Garrett, North Hollywood, back to camera, and Frisco Estes, Van Nuys.” California, USA. June 7, 1960 image. American. Photographer not given but shot for the Valley Times Newspaper. Under © for other than personal use. Fair use license. Valley Times Collection, TESSA, Digital Collections of the Los Angeles Public Library. https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/collection/photos/id/49099

Off to college soon and looking for a place where the students like having fun. Plenty of time to study later. Imagery from the “Maid of Athens” 1923 yearbook of what was then Athens College for Young Women (now Athens State University) in Athens, Alabama in the United States.

Joining the sisters of Sigma Delta for dinner, a few of the girls being very fashion forward with the ribbons that you wore tied across the middle of your forehead. As opposed to a headband kind of thing. Very chic in the 1920s. At least one young lady has an Art Deco era feather fan. Athens College for Young Women, Athens, Alabama. Page 74 of the 1923 edition of the “Maid of Athens,” yearbook (annual) of the Athens College for Young Women (now Athens State University), Athens, Alabama. Collections of Athens State University. via the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/maidofathens1923athe/page/74/mode/1up
Processing under an arch of ribbons with the sisters of Phi Sigma. Athens College for Young Women, Athens, Alabama. Page 75 of the 1923 edition of the “Maid of Athens,” yearbook (annual) of the Athens College for Young Women (now Athens State University), Athens, Alabama. Collections of Athens State University. via the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/maidofathens1923athe/page/75/mode/1up
Singing in the Club or drumming in the Orchestra. Athens College for Young Women, Athens, Alabama. Page 95 of the 1923 edition of the “Maid of Athens,” yearbook (annual) of the Athens College for Young Women (now Athens State University), Athens, Alabama. Collections of Athens State University. via the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/maidofathens1923athe/page/83/mode/1up

An envisioning. 1976 and Estes Park, the sun blazing away merrily while the mountain goats scramble with ease up and down the peaks.

Oh to be here.

Colorado in August, and even more tourists than last time. Paying more rent than they had wanted for last summer’s A-frame, what with the new place having a bigger yard. People turning out to want to look at nature more than they want to linger over taco lunches, though. Having to sit out on the back porch staring at boulders so big that someone going for a hike can’t fit between them to get any peace and quiet, what with an endless parade of day-tripper hikers meandering down the lane out front.

my new short fiction piece published to my Substack at the link if you’d like to read the rest. The image is a 1960s Dole Pineapple advertisement.

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/an-envisioning-1976-and-estes-park