Imagery from “Winnica: miesięcznik ilustrowany poświęcony kobiecie w życiu, sztuce i anegdocie.” (Winnica: an illustrated monthly magazine dedicated to women in life, art, and anecdote. A Polish women’s magazine, published in 1925.
Living a life with entirely different furniture along with entirely new curtains. Rumsinteriör (Room interiors) in Swedish homes. Not much information with these like whose bedroom it was but in the Swedish archives and up on the Internet Archive where lots of interesting pictures live.
Also a three piece upholstered parlor set, a settee and two armchairs. 1890-1920 image. Location not given but presumably in Sweden as the photograph is in it is in Arkivkopia, the Archive of Swedish cultural commons. via the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/arkivkopia.se-digstad-SSMC003274S-0
An envisioning. 2020 with the summer sun blazing away at the apartment at Riverslea Bay.
Oh to be here
Marin County. Lunch over, and a couple of hours to do something with ahead of the poodle needing to be picked up from the groomer’s. A work apron needed, then, what with the dog always shedding the minute something comes along that she doesn’t want to do.
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-2020-with-the-summer
Keys Soulcare Comforting Tinted Lip Balm. Illustration that accompanies an article from Wirecutter ranking the best lip balms. From an email sent out by the New York Times yesterday. Image © Ruthie Darling for the New York Times/Wirecutter. Fair use license. https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-lip-balm/?campaign_id=290&emc=edit_wcd_20260228&instance_id=171739&nl=the-recommendation®i_id=74983616&segment_id=215949&user_id=4c00c56e321c85af6192e44c4d492b60
Up your dining decor potential with silver that looks like it could get up and dance. Imagery from Charles Heathcote Tatham’s 1806 work “Designs for ornamental plate, many of which have been executed in silver from original drawings.”
1998, with spring coming in as the robins sing at the cottage on Maplewood Shores.
Oh to be here.
A tiny bit of ice left up at the top of the elm across the way, so high up the branches are like twigs. Only the tiniest birds having a nest that high up lest their babies tumble to the ground.
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/1998-with-spring-coming-in-as-the
Off to study the Esquimaux. Roughing it in the land of snow yes but not the land of igloos. No, the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Alberta, Canada. Every refinement and a boiler in the basement heating the place up to a fare thee well.
Inside view of the dining room in the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. Looks like its set up for a party or banquet. Undated photograph 1890s-1915? partly because of the Victorian/Edwardian planter filled with ferns.
Gainsborough Studio, Medicine Hat, photographers. Image © 2026 City of Medicine Hat. Esplanade Arts and Heritage Centre Archives. https://collections.esplanade.ca/link/images71093
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Silver Anniversary banquet in the decorated dining room of the Cosmopolitan Hotel – engineers and their ladies. Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. Loving the ceiling decorations. January 1923 image. Photographer not given. Image © 2026 City of Medicine Hat. Esplanade Arts and Heritage Centre Archives. https://collections.esplanade.ca/link/images109638
2022. November turning into December down on the Biloxi shore at the old Sandy Pointe Bungalows.
Oh to be here.
Down for Christmas. All the fancy places taken and a tourist court instead. Better than the Comfort Inn, though. One of those 1930s places with built-in seashell arch-topped niches flanking the living room fireplace, the shelves deep enough for a cat to sleep away two lives if her nap goes on long enough without a grandchild yanking her tail.
my new short fiction piece published to my Substack at the link if you’d like to read the rest. The image is from a 1968 Frigidaire ad campaign –
https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/2022-november-turning-into-december
Packing up the sand toys and heading out for a beach cottage holiday. Paintings by British painter Dame Laura Knight. Living from 1877 to 1970, she was married to fellow painter Harold Knight and was also the first woman elected to full membership in the Royal Academy.
Tired of munching on cookies. Time to work off all those calories with a visit to the animals at the zoo. Imagery From “Zoo Berlin – 1841-1929: Zur Geschichte des Zoologischen Gartens zu Berlin.” Published in 1929, the text is by Dr. Adolph Heilborn.
An envisioning. 1958 and December inching into a January thaw at the house on Chaminade Row.
Oh to be here.
Minnesota, and not being that far from anywhere, if you measure it by how fast a Canada goose can head south for the winter. Teenage children who play trumpet in the band. Saturdays spent ferrying them around. Sitting and waiting in the back of some dusty auditorium, reading a novel while trying to appear to pay rapt attention to whatever the band leader says in case they ask about it on the drive back home. Not needing to find out about a band rehearsal on the other side of the county on the morning of, either.
my new short fiction piece published to my Substack at the link if you’d like to read the rest. The image is an advertisement from 1949 issue of PROM which was a magazine targeted to Saint Louis Missouri teenagers.
https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/an-envisioning-1958-and-december
