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

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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

Happy Eid al-Fitr~I regret that I have no idea whose pink sheep this is as she went viral a long time ago.

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.