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

Birds that Audubon skipped over or maybe forgot about so not in “Birds of America.” Plates from John Cassin’s “Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British, and Russian America: (Forming a Supplement to Audubon’s Birds of America) . . . “Published in 1856. Russian America being what became Seward’s Folly and then the State of Alaska.

The Californian Woodpecker – Melanerpes formicivorus (Swains). George G. White, artist. Drawn on stone by W. E. Hitchcock. Lithograph, printed and colored by J. T. Bowen, Philadelphia. Plate 2, Image 24 of John Cassin’s Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British, and Russian America: (Forming a Supplement to Audubon’s Birds of America) . . . American. Published in Philadelphia by J. P. Lippincott in 1856. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/10231219bsb/page/n23/mode/1up
The Massena Partridge – Cyrtonyx massena (Lesson). George G. White, artist. Drawn on stone by W. E. Hitchcock. Lithograph, printed and colored by J. T. Bowen, Philadelphia. Plate 4, Image 45 of John Cassin’s Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British, and Russian America: (Forming a Supplement to Audubon’s Birds of America) . . . American. Published in Philadelphia by J. P. Lippincott in 1856. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/10231219bsb/page/n45/mode/1up
The White Headed Gull – Larus heermanni (Lesson). George G. White, artist. Drawn on stone by W. E. Hitchcock. Lithograph, printed and colored by J. T. Bowen, Philadelphia. Plate 5, Image 58 of John Cassin’s Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British, and Russian America: (Forming a Supplement to Audubon’s Birds of America) . . . American. Published in Philadelphia by J. P. Lippincott in 1856. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/10231219bsb/page/n58/mode/1up
Gambels Partridge. Callipepla gambelii (Nutt). . George G. White, artist. Drawn on stone by W. E. Hitchcock. Lithograph, printed and colored by J. T. Bowen, Philadelphia. Plate 9, Image 88 of John Cassin’s Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British, and Russian America: (Forming a Supplement to Audubon’s Birds of America) . . . American. Published in Philadelphia by J. P. Lippincott in 1856. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/10231219bsb/page/n89/mode/1up
The Crowned Flycatcher – Pyrocephalus rubineus (Budd). Drawn on stone by W. E. Hitchcock. Lithograph, printed and colored by J. T. Bowen, Philadelphia. Plate 18, Image 88 of John Cassin’s Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British, and Russian America: (Forming a Supplement to Audubon’s Birds of America) . . . American. Published in Philadelphia by J. P. Lippincott in 1856. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/10231219bsb/page/n205/mode/1up
The purple throated Humming Bird – Trochulus Alexandri (Bourcier). Drawn on stone by W. E. Hitchcock. Lithograph, printed and colored by J. T. Bowen, Philadelphia. Plate 22, Image 235 of John Cassin’s Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British, and Russian America: (Forming a Supplement to Audubon’s Birds of America) . . . American. Published in Philadelphia by J. P. Lippincott in 1856. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/10231219bsb/page/n235/mode/1up
The black throated Finch – Emberiza bilineala (Cassin). Drawn on stone by W. E. Hitchcock. Lithograph, printed and colored by J. T. Bowen, Philadelphia. Plate 23, Image 250 of John Cassin’s Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British, and Russian America: (Forming a Supplement to Audubon’s Birds of America) . . . American. Published in Philadelphia by J. P. Lippincott in 1856. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/10231219bsb/page/n250/mode/1up
The Prince Maximilian’s Jay – Gymuokitta cyanocephala (De Wied). Drawn on stone by W. E. Hitchcock. Lithograph, printed and colored by J. T. Bowen, Philadelphia. Plate 28, Image 283 of John Cassin’s Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British, and Russian America: (Forming a Supplement to Audubon’s Birds of America) . . . American. Published in Philadelphia by J. P. Lippincott in 1856. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/10231219bsb/page/n283/mode/1up
The American Stonechat – Saxicola aenanthoides (Vigors). Drawn on stone by W. E. Hitchcock. Lithograph, printed and colored by J. T. Bowen, Philadelphia. Plate 34, Image 347 of John Cassin’s Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British, and Russian America: (Forming a Supplement to Audubon’s Birds of America) . . . American. Published in Philadelphia by J. P. Lippincott in 1856. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/10231219bsb/page/n347/mode/1up
The Vermillion Flycatcher – Cardellina rubra (Swainson). Drawn on stone by W. E. Hitchcock. Lithograph, printed and colored by J. T. Bowen, Philadelphia. Plate 43, Image 441 of John Cassin’s Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British, and Russian America: (Forming a Supplement to Audubon’s Birds of America) . . . American. Published in Philadelphia by J. P. Lippincott in 1856. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/10231219bsb/page/n441/mode/1up
The short tailed Albatross – Diomedea albatrus (Temm). Drawn on stone by W. E. Hitchcock. Lithograph, printed and colored by J. T. Bowen, Philadelphia. Plate 50, Image 491 of John Cassin’s Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British, and Russian America: (Forming a Supplement to Audubon’s Birds of America) . . . American. Published in Philadelphia by J. P. Lippincott in 1856. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/10231219bsb/page/n491/mode/1up

2012 and a mid-morning in April, the rain starting up as the crocus push up their purple heads at the house on Riverton Sands.

Oh to be here.

Halfway up Lake Champlain. The best place on earth to be, down by the water and its singing muskrats, their feet stuck in clay.

my new short fiction piece over on my Substack if you’d like to read the rest.

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/2012-and-a-mid-morning-in-march-the

“Alice Ronchetti with students: A photograph of Alice Rochetti with 11 school children of various ages standing around a table. The table holds projects presumably made by the students: a paper man figure, a model of the Massachusetts Pike, a crocheted pot holder, an elephant out of cardboard, and more.” Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1973. American. Ed Pacheco, Cambridge, Massachusetts, photographer. © the photographer. Alice M. Ronchetti Papers (1935-1973, Cambridge Public Library Archives and Special Collections. Via Digital Commonwealth https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:6395zt16q

Exploring the globe with a Victorian eye. Imagery from George French Angas’s 1849 work “The Kafirs illustrated in a series of drawings taken among the Amazulu, Amaponda, and Amakosa tribes: also, portraits of the … other races inhabiting southern Africa.” He also did illustrated books along the same lines for New Zealand and Australia which are the subjects of earlier posts here.

Cape Town from the Camps Bay Road. Cape Colony (South Africa). George French Argas, artist (and author). Page 6, Image 36 of The Kafirs illustrated in a series of drawings taken among the Amazulu, Amaponda, and Amakosa tribes : also, portraits of the … other races inhabiting southern Africa. Published in 1847 by J. Hogarth, Haymarket, London. Collections of the National History Museum Library, London. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/kafirsillustrat00anga/page/6/mode/1up
Karel, a Malay priest, at prayer: his wife Nazea. George French Argas, artist (and author).Plate 2, Image 25 of The Kafirs illustrated in a series of drawings taken among the Amazulu, Amaponda, and Amakosa tribes : also, portraits of the … other races inhabiting southern Africa. Published in 1847 by J. Hogarth, Haymarket, London. Collections of the National History Museum Library, London. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/kafirsillustrat00anga/page/n24/mode/1up
Bavian’s Kloof (The Glen of Baboons, Genadendal. George French Argas, artist (and author).Image 48 of The Kafirs illustrated in a series of drawings taken among the Amazulu, Amaponda, and Amakosa tribes : also, portraits of the … other races inhabiting southern Africa. Published in 1847 by J. Hogarth, Haymarket, London. Collections of the National History Museum Library, London. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/kafirsillustrat00anga/page/n48/mode/1up
Umpanda, the King of the Amazulu. George French Argas, artist (and author).Image 59 of The Kafirs illustrated in a series of drawings taken among the Amazulu, Amaponda, and Amakosa tribes : also, portraits of the … other races inhabiting southern Africa. Published in 1847 by J. Hogarth, Haymarket, London. Collections of the National History Museum Library, London. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/kafirsillustrat00anga/page/n59/mode/1up
Panda Reviewing his Soldiers at Nonduengu. George French Argas, artist (and author).Image 63 of The Kafirs illustrated in a series of drawings taken among the Amazulu, Amaponda, and Amakosa tribes : also, portraits of the … other races inhabiting southern Africa. Published in 1847 by J. Hogarth, Haymarket, London. Collections of the National History Museum Library, London. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/kafirsillustrat00anga/page/n63/mode/1up

Zulu Kraal on the Umgani, with Cattle and Sheep. George French Argas, artist (and author).Image 77 of The Kafirs illustrated in a series of drawings taken among the Amazulu, Amaponda, and Amakosa tribes : also, portraits of the … other races inhabiting southern Africa. Published in 1847 by J. Hogarth, Haymarket, London. Collections of the National History Museum Library, London. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/kafirsillustrat00anga/page/16/mode/1up
Mouth of the Umvoti River, on the Indian Ocean, Natal. George French Argas, artist (and author). Image 81 of The Kafirs illustrated in a series of drawings taken among the Amazulu, Amaponda, and Amakosa tribes : also, portraits of the … other races inhabiting southern Africa. Published in 1847 by J. Hogarth, Haymarket, London. Collections of the National History Museum Library, London. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/kafirsillustrat00anga/page/n81/mode/1up
Soldiers of King Panda’s Army. George French Argas, artist (and author). Image 88 of The Kafirs illustrated in a series of drawings taken among the Amazulu, Amaponda, and Amakosa tribes : also, portraits of the … other races inhabiting southern Africa. Published in 1847 by J. Hogarth, Haymarket, London. Collections of the National History Museum Library, London. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/kafirsillustrat00anga/page/n88/mode/1up
Scene in a Zulu Kraal, with Huts and Screens. George French Argas, artist (and author). Image 91 of The Kafirs illustrated in a series of drawings taken among the Amazulu, Amaponda, and Amakosa tribes : also, portraits of the … other races inhabiting southern Africa. Published in 1847 by J. Hogarth, Haymarket, London. Collections of the National History Museum Library, London. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/kafirsillustrat00anga/page/n91/mode/1up
Evening Scene on the Umnonoti River. George French Argas, artist (and author). Image 94 of The Kafirs illustrated in a series of drawings taken among the Amazulu, Amaponda, and Amakosa tribes : also, portraits of the … other races inhabiting southern Africa. Published in 1847 by J. Hogarth, Haymarket, London. Collections of the National History Museum Library, London. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/kafirsillustrat00anga/page/n94/mode/1up
The New Antelope from Saint Lucia Bay. George French Argas, artist (and author). Image 117 of The Kafirs illustrated in a series of drawings taken among the Amazulu, Amaponda, and Amakosa tribes : also, portraits of the … other races inhabiting southern Africa. Published in 1847 by J. Hogarth, Haymarket, London. Collections of the National History Museum Library, London. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/kafirsillustrat00anga/page/n117/mode/1up
New and Remarkable Species of Lepidoptera, from Natal and the Zulu Country.George French Argas, artist (and author). Image 120 of The Kafirs illustrated in a series of drawings taken among the Amazulu, Amaponda, and Amakosa tribes : also, portraits of the … other races inhabiting southern Africa. Published in 1847 by J. Hogarth, Haymarket, London. Collections of the National History Museum Library, London. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/kafirsillustrat00anga/page/n120/mode/1up

George French Argas was an English explorer, naturalist, painter and poet. In 1846 he went to what is now South Africa, where he spent two years in Natal and the Cape. I don’t think he was one of those artists who accompanied explorers because the book these are taken is dedicated to Major-General Sir Harry Smith, Bart. G.C.B. who was Her Majesty’s High Commissioner for the Cape of Good Hope.

Also, this is more faded out than many of these and I can’t make out the names of the lithographers for the various plates. Often the lithographer (s) is listed on the title page but not here.

Traveling back to real Art Deco time. Store fronts with some very Art Deco looking customers hanging around out front. Imagery from a commercial catalogue published in Paris France in 1932 by Chapelon et Gervais. This is Part II. Part I was a post last month with the light fixtures and other home goods and furniture from the same catalogue.

7025. Devanture, métal poli, 1 porte ouvrante, 2 vitrines. Image 65 of a 1932 catalogue titled Ateliers le fer ouvré, published by the firm of Chapelon et Gervais, 14 avenue des Sycomores, Paris 16e, France. Jean Acker et Cie, Paris, printers. Collections of the Bibliothèque Forney, Paris. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://bibliotheques-specialisees.paris.fr/ark:/73873/pf0002007673/v0065.simple.highlight=ferronnerie.selectedTab=thumbnail
Salon de Coiffure Dames – Messieurs. Devanture, fer forgé noirci ou peint, 1 porte ouvrante. Image 66 of a 1932 catalogue titled Ateliers le fer ouvré, published by the firm of Chapelon et Gervais, 14 avenue des Sycomores, Paris 16e, France. Jean Acker et Cie, Paris, printers. Collections of the Bibliothèque Forney, Paris. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://bibliotheques-specialisees.paris.fr/ark:/73873/pf0002007673/v0066.simple.highlight=ferronnerie.selectedTab=thumbnail
Paris – Automobiles. Devanture, métal inoxydable, 1 porte ouvrante à 2 vantaux et imposte fixe. Image 67 of a 1932 catalogue titled Ateliers le fer ouvré, published by the firm of Chapelon et Gervais, 14 avenue des Sycomores, Paris 16e, France. Jean Acker et Cie, Paris, printers. Collections of the Bibliothèque Forney, Paris. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://bibliotheques-specialisees.paris.fr/ark:/73873/pf0002007673/v0066.simple.highlight=ferronnerie.selectedTab=thumbnail
au Palais du Meuble. Devanture fer forgé, noirci ou peint, 2 portes ouvrantes. Image 68 of a 1932 catalogue titled Ateliers le fer ouvré, published by the firm of Chapelon et Gervais, 14 avenue des Sycomores, Paris 16e, France. Jean Acker et Cie, Paris, printers. Collections of the Bibliothèque Forney, Paris. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://bibliotheques-specialisees.paris.fr/ark:/73873/pf0002007673/v0066.simple.highlight=ferronnerie.selectedTab=thumbnail

I would assume they were selling the store fronts (shop fronts) which could then be installed at your place of business. This is their only catalogue that is turning up online. They were listed as a firm working with masonry with the French government back in the mid 1960s but that’s all that turns up at least as of today.

Trying to live the way the Duke of Windsor might have as a youngish fellow. Very chic for the mid 1930s, including the staircases with no walls on either side so nothing to grab onto if you slip. Imagery from “Encyclopédie de l’architecture: constructions modernes. Tome VII.” 1935. Albert Marcel Morancé, editor. From a scanned copy at the Internet Archive.

Villa, Glyfada, Greece. Stama Papadaki, architect: Petites Maisons, Villas, Bungalows. Page 18 of Encyclopédie de l’architecture: constructions modernes. Tome VII. Albert Marcel Morancé, editor. Published in 1935 by Éditions Albert Morancé. Cc0 License 1.0. In the public domain. via https://archive.org/details/frapn02-encyclopedie-de-l-architecture-constructions-modernes-tome-7-1935/page/n2/mode/1up
Jardin a Paris: Jardins. J. Charles Moreux, Architecte a Paris. Page 37 of Encyclopédie de l’architecture: constructions modernes. Tome VII. Albert Marcel Morancé, editor. Published in 1935 by Éditions Albert Morancé. Cc0 License 1.0. In the public domain. via https://archive.org/details/frapn02-encyclopedie-de-l-architecture-constructions-modernes-tome-7-1935/page/n36/mode/1up
Restaurant, Hambourg Aéroport. Germany (ground floor plan detail): Aéroports. Dyrssen et Averhoff, Architectes, Hambourg. Page 50 of Encyclopédie de l’architecture: constructions modernes. Tome VII. Albert Marcel Morancé, editor. Published in 1935 by Éditions Albert Morancé. Cc0 License 1.0. In the public domain. via https://archive.org/details/frapn02-encyclopedie-de-l-architecture-constructions-modernes-tome-7-1935/page/n49/mode/1up
Interior staircase. Hambourg Aéroport. Germany: Aéroports. Dyrssen et Averhoff, Architectes, Hambourg. Page 54 of Encyclopédie de l’architecture: constructions modernes. Tome VII. Albert Marcel Morancé, editor. Published in 1935 by Éditions Albert Morancé. Cc0 License 1.0. In the public domain. via https://archive.org/details/frapn02-encyclopedie-de-l-architecture-constructions-modernes-tome-7-1935/page/n54/mode/1up
An Interior of the House of Teshigahara, Tokyo, Japan. Satow-Takeo, Architect: Petites Maisons; Villas, Bungalows. Page 69 (lower image) of Encyclopédie de l’architecture: constructions modernes. Tome VII. Albert Marcel Morancé, editor. Published in 1935 by Éditions Albert Morancé. Cc0 License 1.0. In the public domain. via https://archive.org/details/frapn02-encyclopedie-de-l-architecture-constructions-modernes-tome-7-1935/page/n68/mode/1up
An Interior of the House of Teshigahara, Tokyo, Japan. Satow-Takeo, Architect: Petites Maisons; Villas, Bungalows. Page 71 (upper image) of Encyclopédie de l’architecture: constructions modernes. Tome VII. Albert Marcel Morancé, editor. Published in 1935 by Éditions Albert Morancé. Cc0 License 1.0. In the public domain. via https://archive.org/details/frapn02-encyclopedie-de-l-architecture-constructions-modernes-tome-7-1935/page/n70/mode/1up
Hallway looking towards the dining room. Immeuble de Rapport. Hamayon, Architecte: Immeuble de Rapport. Page 115 (upper right image) of Encyclopédie de l’architecture: constructions modernes. Tome VII. Albert Marcel Morancé, editor. Published in 1935 by Éditions Albert Morancé. Cc0 License 1.0. In the public domain. via https://archive.org/details/frapn02-encyclopedie-de-l-architecture-constructions-modernes-tome-7-1935/page/n114/mode/1up
Bungalow pour le Week End. Pres de Vienne. Erich Boltenstern, architecte: Petites Maisons, Villas, Bungalows. Page 103 of Encyclopédie de l’architecture: constructions modernes. Tome VII. Albert Marcel Morancé, editor. Published in 1935 by Éditions Albert Morancé. Cc0 License 1.0. In the public domain. via https://archive.org/details/frapn02-encyclopedie-de-l-architecture-constructions-modernes-tome-7-1935/page/n103/mode/1up
Immeuble de Rapport a Paris. Le Corbusier et P. Jeanneret, architectes: Immeuble de Rapport. Page 124 of Encyclopédie de l’architecture: constructions modernes. Tome VII. Albert Marcel Morancé, editor. Published in 1935 by Éditions Albert Morancé. Cc0 License 1.0. In the public domain. via https://archive.org/details/frapn02-encyclopedie-de-l-architecture-constructions-modernes-tome-7-1935/page/n124/mode/1up
Furnished apartment, London, England. Sir John Burnet, Tait et Lorne. mmeuble de Rapport. Page 155 of Encyclopédie de l’architecture: constructions modernes. Tome VII. Albert Marcel Morancé, editor. Published in 1935 by Éditions Albert Morancé. Cc0 License 1.0. In the public domain. via https://archive.org/details/frapn02-encyclopedie-de-l-architecture-constructions-modernes-tome-7-1935/page/n154/mode/1up

Chromolithographs of birds of Central Europe. Imagery from a 1905 re-edited version of “Volume XI – Pelicans, Frigatebirds, Goblins, River Coromants, Tropical Birds, Movens,” of Johann Andreas Naumann’s “Naturgeschichte der vogel Mitteleuropas.” Naumann died in 1826. The title page has a long list of the naturalists/professors who did the re-editing but the lead editor was Doctor Carl R. Hennicke. Written in German and Latin.

Pelecanus onocrotalus I. – Gemainer Pelikan – Altes Männchen im Prachtkleide. 1/8 naturl. Grösse. Page 1, Image 21 of a 1905 re-edited version of Volume XI – Pelicans, Frigatebirds, Goblins, River Coromants, Tropical Birds, Movens, of Naturgeschichte der vogel Mitteleuropas. Johann Andreas Naumann author. Doctor Carl R. Hennicke, lead re-editor. Bruno Geisler, artist. F. Eugen Köhler, Gera-Untermhaus, publisher/chromolithographer. Collections of the  Missouri Botanical Garden. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/mobot31753003759369/page/1/mode/1up
Phaëton aethereus L, Tropikvogel. 1. Männchen. – Fregata aquila (L.) – Fregattvogel, 2. Alter Vogel, 3 Weibchen. 1/8 naturl. Grösse. Page 3, Image 45 of a 1905 re-edited version of Volume XI – Pelicans, Frigatebirds, Goblins, River Coromants, Tropical Birds, Movens, of Naturgeschichte der vogel Mitteleuropas. Johann Andreas Naumann author. Doctor Carl R. Hennicke, lead re-editor. Bruno Geisler, artist. F. Eugen Köhler, Gera-Untermhaus, publisher/chromolithographer. Collections of the  Missouri Botanical Garden. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/mobot31753003759369/page/3/mode/1up
Sula bassana (L.) Basstölpel. – 1. alten Männchen, 2 winges Weibchen, 3. Nestkleid. Page 4, Image 55 of a 1905 re-edited version of Volume XI – Pelicans, Frigatebirds, Goblins, River Coromants, Tropical Birds, Movens, of Naturgeschichte der vogel Mitteleuropas. Johann Andreas Naumann author. Doctor Carl R. Hennicke, lead re-editor. Bruno Geisler, artist. F. Eugen Köhler, Gera-Untermhaus, publisher/chromolithographer. Collections of the  Missouri Botanical Garden. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/mobot31753003759369/page/4/mode/1up
Phalacrocorax carbo (L.) Kormoranscharbe. 1. Jugendkleid. – Phalacrocorax graculus (L.), Krahenscharbe. 2. Jugendkleid.- Phalacrocorax pygmacus (Pall.) – Zwerscharbe . 3 erstes Jugendkleid, 4 zweites Jugendkleid. Page 7, Image 101 of a 1905 re-edited version of Volume XI – Pelicans, Frigatebirds, Goblins, River Coromants, Tropical Birds, Movens, of Naturgeschichte der vogel Mitteleuropas. Johann Andreas Naumann author. Doctor Carl R. Hennicke, lead re-editor. Bruno Geisler, artist. F. Eugen Köhler, Gera-Untermhaus, publisher/chromolithographer. Collections of the  Missouri Botanical Garden. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/mobot31753003759369/page/7/mode/1up
Hydrochelidon fissipes (Pall.), Weissflügelige Seeschwalbe. 1. Sommerkleid – Hydrochelidon hybrida (Pall.), Weissbärtige Seeschwalbe, 2. Sommerkleid – Hydrochelidon nigra (L.). Schwarze Seeschwalbe. 3. Weibchen im Sommerkleide, 4. Mannchen im Sommerkleide, Page 8, Image 123 of a 1905 re-edited version of Volume XI – Pelicans, Frigatebirds, Goblins, River Coromants, Tropical Birds, Movens, of Naturgeschichte der vogel Mitteleuropas. Johann Andreas Naumann author. Doctor Carl R. Hennicke, lead re-editor. Bruno Geisler, artist. F. Eugen Köhler, Gera-Untermhaus, publisher/chromolithographer. Collections of the  Missouri Botanical Garden. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/mobot31753003759369/page/8/mode/1up

1992, and an afternoon in spring with the robins chirping along as the earthworms slither in the back yard at the bungalow on Flying Fish Row.

Oh to be here.

Another hour of weed pulling. Fun it is, but not as much fun in a pastel pink linen skirt and camisole set as uprooting dandelions in denim shorts and an old t-shirt. Not like back home with all that red clay that turns everything and everyone from little girls to puppy dogs nearly as orange as the sign over an Orange Julius stand. Pale colors in accordance with Pantone, and whoever the buyer is at the boutique by the beach. Nothing darkish brown enough to hide the smallest streak of mud.

my new short fiction piece published over on my Substack if you’d like to read the rest. The image is from Digital Library of Georgia.

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/1992-and-an-afternoon-in-spring-with