Down to the garden and back later. Paintings of the outdoors by English impressionist painter Wynford Dewhurst. Living from 1864 to 1941, he swapped out his original name, Thomas Edward Smith, when he was studying art in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts.

*A Corner of the Garden.* 1905. English. Oil on canvas. Wynford Dewhurst, painter (1864-1941). Signed and dated ‘Wynford Dewhurst 1905’ on the lower left. Image © Bonhams 2001-2026. Fair use license. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. https://www.bonhams.com/auction/32231/lot/77/wynford-dewhurst-rba-british-1864-1941-a-corner-of-the-garden/

https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/heath-pond-leighton-buzzard-bedfordshire-26981/search/actor:dewhurst-wynford-18641941/page/1/view_as/grid

*Heath Pond, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire*. Undated, ca. 1907. English. Oil on canvas. Wynford Dewhurst, painter (1864-1941). Image credit: Buckinghamshire County Council. Collections of the County Hall, Aylesbury. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/heath-pond-leighton-buzzard-bedfordshire-26981/search/actor:dewhurst-wynford-18641941/page/1/view_as/grid

*The Blue Valley.* 1908. English. Oil on canvas. Wynford Dewhurst, painter (1864-1941). Image credit and collections of the Manchester Art Gallery. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-blue-valley-204857/search/actor:dewhurst-wynford-18641941/page/1/view_as/grid

*The Brigand’s Mill.* Crozant in the Creuse valley in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Central France, with the ruined castle above. Undated, before 1926 when a dam was built. English. Oil on canvas. Wynford Dewhurst, painter (1864-1941). Signed on the lower left. Image credit and collections of the Kirklees Museums and Galleries. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-brigands-mill-22278/search/actor:dewhurst-wynford-18641941/page/1/view_as/grid

*The Picnic.* 1908. English. Oil on canvas. Wynford Dewhurst, painter (1864-1941). Image credit and collections of the Manchester Art Gallery. Artwork in the public domain because the artist died before 1960. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wynford_Dewhurst_The_Picnic.jpg

Bric a brac to put out around the house that you’ll have to do your best to live up to. Maybe it’s impossible. The bric a brac has won. Leopold Weininger, goldsmith. Living from 1854 to 1922, Weininger was listed in the Branchenverzeichnis der Meisterlisten als Spezialist, as a specialist for enameled pieces imitating the antique, starting in 1909. He worked in Vienna, Austria but his pieces were sold to customers all over Europe.

Time traveling my way back to a fancier hotel. The heck with the one next to the casino; I’m heading for the Hotel Adlon in Berlin. Imagery from a 1905-1907 piece of promotional ephemera put out by Lorenz Adlon whose hotel it was. Where Kaiser Wilhelm and his friends spent the winter. And summer.

*Front cover of Hotel Adlon Berlin. Erbaut 1905-1907 von dem Eigentümer Lorenz Adlon-Berlin. Hoflieferant Sr. Majestat D. Kaisers u. Konigs.* Published in Hesse-Darmstadt. Image 1. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/hoteladlonberlin00adlo/mode/1up

*Hotel Adlon-Berlin. Haupt-Portal unter en Linden.* Page 4 of *Hotel Adlon Berlin. Erbaut 1905-1907 von dem Eigentümer Lorenz Adlon-Berlin. Hoflieferant Sr. Majestat D. Kaisers u. Konigs.* Published in Hesse-Darmstadt.Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/hoteladlonberlin00adlo/page/n4/mode/1up

Seine Majestat, der Deutsche Kaiser. Vollzog die Eröffnung des Hotels Adlon durch Allerhochstes Besuch am 23. Oktober 1907 und beteiligte sich ferner im März 1909 an dem historischen Dinner anlässlich der Hundertjahrfeier des Königlichen Kriegsministeriums im Kaisersaal des Hotels Adlon. Nach dem Original- Gemälde von l’rof. Nostor im Hotel Adlon. Page 6 of *Hotel Adlon Berlin. Erbaut 1905-1907 von dem Eigentümer Lorenz Adlon-Berlin. Hoflieferant Sr. Majestat D. Kaisers u. Konigs.* Published in Hesse-Darmstadt.Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/hoteladlonberlin00adlo/page/n6/mode/1up

*Hotel Adlon – Berlin – Empfangsraum mit Kasse und Post.* Page 6, Image 17 of *Hotel Adlon Berlin. Erbaut 1905-1907 von dem Eigentümer Lorenz Adlon-Berlin. Hoflieferant Sr. Majestat D. Kaisers u. Konigs.* Published in Hesse-Darmstadt.Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/hoteladlonberlin00adlo/page/6/mode/1up

*Hotel Adlon – Berlin – Blick in den Palmengarten.* Page 9, Image 20 of *Hotel Adlon Berlin. Erbaut 1905-1907 von dem Eigentümer Lorenz Adlon-Berlin. Hoflieferant Sr. Majestat D. Kaisers u. Konigs.* Published in Hesse-Darmstadt.Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/hoteladlonberlin00adlo/page/9/mode/1up

*Hotel Adlon – Berlin – American-Bar. Vicado Holz. Alt Vergoldete stuckdecke. Gemälde: Bacchanal Von Paul Hermann.* Page 16, Image 27 of *Hotel Adlon Berlin. Erbaut 1905-1907 von dem Eigentümer Lorenz Adlon-Berlin. Hoflieferant Sr. Majestat D. Kaisers u. Konigs.* Published in Hesse-Darmstadt.Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/hoteladlonberlin00adlo/page/16/mode/1up

*Hotel Adlon – Berlin – Bronze Kandelaber: Sonne und Planeten. Entwurf von Professor Richard Guhr-Dresden.* Page 18, Image 29 of *Hotel Adlon Berlin. Erbaut 1905-1907 von dem Eigentümer Lorenz Adlon-Berlin. Hoflieferant Sr. Majestat D. Kaisers u. Konigs.* Published in Hesse-Darmstadt.Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/hoteladlonberlin00adlo/page/18/mode/1up

*Hotel Adlon – Berlin – Aufgang in das Restaurant am Pariser Platz. Bronze Kandelaber; Tierkreis U. Planeten System. von Professor Richard Guhr-Dresden*. Page 20, Image 31 of *Hotel Adlon Berlin. Erbaut 1905-1907 von dem Eigentümer Lorenz Adlon-Berlin. Hoflieferant Sr. Majestat D. Kaisers u. Konigs.* Published in Hesse-Darmstadt.Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/hoteladlonberlin00adlo/page/20/mode/1up

*Hotel Adlon – Berlin – Ein Bade-Raum.* Page 52, Image 63 of *Hotel Adlon Berlin. Erbaut 1905-1907 von dem Eigentümer Lorenz Adlon-Berlin. Hoflieferant Sr. Majestat D. Kaisers u. Konigs.* Published in Hesse-Darmstadt.Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/hoteladlonberlin00adlo/page/52/mode/1up

my earlier piece with a different Hotel Adlon photograph and a special World War II story. https://sarahbguestperry.blog/2018/10/07/an-envisioning-eight-in-the-evening-and-a-compact-out-of-ones-evening-bag-the-powder-room-of-the-hotel-adlon-in-berlin/

The Hotel Adlon, this version, burned down after World War II but has been rebuilt on the same parcel and is very fancy too. Visit them in real time or here https://www.kempinski.com/en/hotel-adlon

Pretending to be a docent or perhaps just dressing up as a rehearsal for the masquerade ball. Tableaux vivant for grown ups. Old pictures from 1892-1915 ish. Fun whatever their reason was.

Costumed portrait of Jane Adams Patterson and her husband Henry W. Patterson, II dressed in his father’s Civil War uniform. Identification of this item came from Michael Burr Patterson (b. 1936 in Wayland), grandson of the subjects of the photograph. Undated photograph but I think it’s from around 1900-1905 judging by the rest of the collection its a part of. American. Alfred W. Cutting (1860-1935), photographer. Sears and Cutting Family Papers, Historic New England Collections. Rights status not evaluated but probably in the public domain because the photographer died over 70 years ago. https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth-oai:pn89dz92n

*Eleanor Drew posed for living picture (tableau vivant) at Unitarian Universalist Church vestry.* Wayland, Massachusetts. Photograph ca. 1920. American. Alfred W. Cutting (1860-1935), photographer. Alfred Wayland Cutting Photographs Collection, Wayland Historical Society. CC BY-NC-ND Creative Commons License. via https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:6395xh93s

*Eleanor Heard Russell at Old North Cemetery dressed as a mid 19th century lady. Photographed in Wayland, Massachusetts.* 1914-1915 photograph. American. Alfred W. Cutting (1860-1935), photographer. Alfred Wayland Cutting Photographs Collection, Wayland Historical Society. CC BY-NC-ND Creative Commons License. via https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:6395xk961

*First Parish Church choir on the 100th anniversary of the building of the church, dressed as 1830s or 1840s ladies I think. Wayland, Massachusetts.* 1915 photograph. American. Alfred W. Cutting (1860-1935), photographer. Alfred Wayland Cutting Photographs Collection, Wayland Historical Society. CC BY-NC-ND Creative Commons License. via https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:6395xk55s

Jane Adams Patterson wearing a Sioux Indian costume purchased by the Patterson family at Fort Laramie Wyoming in around 1868. Presumably photographed in Wayland, Massachusetts. Identification of this item came from Michael Burr Patterson (b. 1936 in Wayland), grandson of the subject of the photograph. Undated photograph but I think it’s from around 1900-1915 judging by the rest of the collection its a part of. American. Alfred W. Cutting (1860-1935), photographer. Sears and Cutting Family Papers, Historic New England Collections. Rights status not evaluated but probably in the public domain because the photographer died over 70 years ago. https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth-oai:pn89dz89b

Sunday School play, boys and girls in costume. Wayland, Massachusetts; probably the Sunday School at the First Parish Church, too. 1892 photograph. American. American. Alfred W. Cutting (1860-1935), photographer. Alfred Wayland Cutting Photographs Collection, Wayland Historical Society. CC BY-NC-ND Creative Commons License. via https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:6395xh411

EL PHOENIX STORY (TO START)

April 2, 1919.

Picking up her eraser, Kathy Leonard goes back to her arithmetic homework. More interesting than English class and the new paper having to be written, true, but needing to erase bits ten times more often and that not seeming to be a good thing.

One good part, each problem being like its own little house with that good feeling when one was finished. Not like most of the classes where you could read and read and it still seemed to take forever to finish. If only “Silas Marner” was as interesting as the books in the library, she thought. If it was you could read if in a jiffy not a month when the teacher said two weeks.

These are the first paragraphs of Scene I in my upcoming coming of age 5,000 word piece which will be over on my Substack with a link here. I’ve written more than the first two paragraphs here so you can read them at the link of you like

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/el-phoenix

Some pretty black and white versions of fireworks from the 1939-1940 World’s Fair held in New York City. I don’t know whether they all became real fireworks or are in a forever dreamland of their own. Collections of the New York Public Library.

Fireworks. 1939-1940. American. New York World’s Fair 1939-1940 Promotion and Development Division. New York World’s Fair 1939-1940 Collection, Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library. Who currently holds the copyright or if anyone does is unsure. Fair use license. via https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/c1e15ad0-c541-012f-5ef3-58d385a7bc34?canvasIndex=0

*Fireworks over water.* 1939-1940. American. New York World’s Fair 1939-1940 Promotion and Development Division. New York World’s Fair 1939-1940 Collection, Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library. Who currently holds the copyright or if anyone does is unsure. Fair use license. via https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/c7429ed0-c541-012f-c42b-58d385a7bc34?canvasIndex=0

*Fireworks – patriotic display.* 1939-1940. American. New York World’s Fair 1939-1940 Promotion and Development Division. New York World’s Fair 1939-1940 Collection, Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library. Who currently holds the copyright or if anyone does is unsure. Fair use license. via https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ccad4a30-c541-012f-6764-58d385a7bc34?canvasIndex=0

*Fireworks – sketch of display.* 1939-1940. American. New York World’s Fair 1939-1940 Promotion and Development Division. New York World’s Fair 1939-1940 Collection, Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library. Who currently holds the copyright or if anyone does is unsure. Fair use license. via https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/c43807a0-c541-012f-6c46-58d385a7bc34?canvasIndex=0

*Fireworks – with water for fountains.* 1939-1940. American. New York World’s Fair 1939-1940 Promotion and Development Division. New York World’s Fair 1939-1940 Collection, Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library. Who currently holds the copyright or if anyone does is unsure. Fair use license. via https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/c657ba60-c541-012f-d6cc-58d385a7bc34?canvasIndex=0

*Legion of Nations – sketch of fireworks display.* 1939-1940. American. New York World’s Fair 1939-1940 Promotion and Development Division. New York World’s Fair 1939-1940 Collection, Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library. Who currently holds the copyright or if anyone does is unsure. Fair use license. via https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/3fe69ff0-c546-012f-6bd0-58d385a7bc34?canvasIndex=0

Plates in gorgeous colors that haven’t faded from “The Old Schloss.” Published in Philadelphia in 1906, it was written by Margaret Longstreble Corlies.

Front cover of *The Old Schloss.* Margaret Longstreble Corlies, author. Published in 1906 by the J. C. Winston Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA. Collections of the Library of Congress. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/oldschloss00corl/mode/1up

*We danced and we bowed to each one. Signed Ruth E. Newton, 1906.* Chromolithograph after a color drawing by Ruth E. Newton. Page 20 of The Old Schloss. Margaret Longstreble Corlies, author. Published in 1906 by the J. C. Winston Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA. Collections of the Library of Congress. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/oldschloss00corl/page/n20/mode/1up .

*In all sorts of patterns we cut it.* *Signed Ruth E. Newton, 1906.* Chromolithograph after a color drawing by Ruth E. Newton. Page 26 of The Old Schloss. Margaret Longstreble Corlies, author. Published in 1906 by the J. C. Winston Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA. Collections of the Library of Congress. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/oldschloss00corl/page/n26/mode/1up

*For in the old oak chest we hid them. Signed Ruth E. Newton, 1906.* Chromolithograph after a color drawing by Ruth E. Newton. Page 36 of The Old Schloss. Margaret Longstreble Corlies, author. Published in 1906 by the J. C. Winston Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA. Collections of the Library of Congress. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/oldschloss00corl/page/n36/mode/1up

Heading back into time and wanting to live the life of a 1960s bride with all new Drexel furniture to fill up my honeymoon cottage. From their Esperanto line and sort of Mediterranean looking. Not sure which country or anything but who cares. Not me

Front cover of the June 1965 edition of *This is Esperanto by Drexel*. Image 1. American, a trade catalogue put out by the Drexel Furniture Company. Cc0 License 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/drexel-esperanto-furniture-1965/mode/1up

*Esperanto Bedroom by Drexel*. Image (page) 2, June 1965 edition of *This is Esperanto by Drexel*. American, a trade catalogue put out by the Drexel Furniture Company. Cc0 License 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/drexel-esperanto-furniture-1965/page/n2/mode/1up

*401-510 Poudre. Moreno Finish Only. 4 drawers, Lift-up Mirror; 401-720 Poudre Bench, Moreno Finish Only (left) – 401-400 Lingerie Chest (Shown) Hispania Finish or Moreno Finish (right).* Page 10, Image 1. June 1965 edition of *This is Esperanto by Drexel*. American, a trade catalogue put out by the Drexel Furniture Company. Cc0 License 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/drexel-esperanto-furniture-1965/page/n11/mode/1up

*401-582 Bed. Open Head, Low Foot, both with Posts for Full Canopy, Moreno Finish Only (left) – 401-630 Night Stand (Shown) 3 Drawers, in Hispania or Moreno Finish (right).* Page 18, Image 19. June 1965 edition of *This is Esperanto by Drexel*. American, a trade catalogue put out by the Drexel Furniture Company. Cc0 License 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/drexel-esperanto-furniture-1965/page/n19/mode/1up

*463-300 Party Table (Brown) with Two 12 ” Plain Leaves and Adjustable Glides. Hispania or Moreno Finish (left) – 493-700 Party Chairs in Hispania or Moreno Finish (right).* Page 35, Image 33 June 1965 edition of *This is Esperanto by Drexel*. American, a trade catalogue put out by the Drexel Furniture Company. Cc0 License 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/drexel-esperanto-furniture-1965/page/n33/mode/1up

*Wing Chairs, with or without an optional Kick Pleat Skirt*. Page 51, Image 44 June 1965 edition of *This is Esperanto by Drexel*. American, a trade catalogue put out by the Drexel Furniture Company. Cc0 License 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/drexel-esperanto-furniture-1965/page/n44/mode/1up

*Sofa Lounge.* Image 46 June 1965 edition of *This is Esperanto by Drexel*. American, a trade catalogue put out by the Drexel Furniture Company. Cc0 License 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/drexel-esperanto-furniture-1965/page/n46/mode/1up

Back cover of the June 1965 edition of *This is Esperanto by Drexel*. Image 47. American, a trade catalogue put out by the Drexel Furniture Company. Cc0 License 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/drexel-esperanto-furniture-1965/page/n47/mode/1up

Some of the pages fell out and got lost. Still these are great. The Drexel Furniture Company was founded in Drexel, North Carolina in 1903. In 1956 they merged with another furniture manufacturer and became Drexel Heritage and then changed ownership multiple times before ceasing new production during a corporate bankrupty in 2018.

Out for the evening at Los Angeles’ Cocoanut Grove nightclub. The Cocoanut Grove was a nightclub in the Ambassador Hotel located at 3400 Wilshire Boulevard. It had nothing to do with the Boston nightclub.

*Mrs. Harold Lloyd and Friends*, the photograph caption being dated January 30, 1937 and reading “In one of the most charming parties in recent weeks, a group of the society set is pictured at the Cocoanut Grove the other evening when Mrs. Margaret L. Smith of Honolulu and Los Angeles, entertained in honor of Mrs. Frederick Conger Bryan on the latter’s birthday. Left to right, Mrs. Smith, the hostess; Roy Brooks, Mrs. Harold Lloyd and Alexander Black. The tables were beautifully decorated for the event.” The group is seated at a table with floral arrangements and candles. Other diners and waiters are in the background. What look like flying saucers over the two men’s heads are arrows pointing who is who. American. Photographed for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner Newspaper. Los Angeles Herald Examiner Newspaper Collection, TESSA, the Digital Collections of the Los Angeles Public Library. https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/collection/photos/id/33985/rec/58

Filmland Fetes New Veterans: the photograph caption being dated June 29 1942 and reading: “Lieutenant William C. Carrithers, who helped bomb Japanese troop movements, and his partner, Betty Grable, have a chat between dishes. The heroes will leave here for Texas to resume their nation-wide tour.” Lieutenant Carrithers was one of a group of fifteen American and British soldiers on a nation-wide tour to help defense efforts by asking the public to buy war bonds. The veterans were honored at a gala reception held at the Cocoanut Grove in Hollywood, California. The soldiers pulled from a bowl, names of movie stars who became their dining and dancing partners for the night. Lieutenant Carrither’s partner was Betty Grable. American. Photographed for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner Newspaper. Los Angeles Herald Examiner Newspaper Collection, TESSA, the Digital Collections of the Los Angeles Public Library. https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/collection/photos/id/30735/rec/33

Parade of Fashion Held at the Cocoanut Grove: Gathered here from all over the nation to get a preview of the newest and smartest Los Angeles-made styles, buyers are shown viewing the parade of fashion at the climax of the Fashion Fortnight held in the Cocoanut Grove. On the runway Ruth Stevens models a spring negligee of white jersey embroidered with rhinestones. It has the new lowered waistline and the jersey is draped across the shoulders to fall at the back in a long train. The Fashion Fortnight was sponsored by the Los Angeles Associated Apparel Manufacturers. Photo dated: January 27, 1938. American. Photographed for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner Newspaper. Los Angeles Herald Examiner Newspaper Collection, TESSA, the Digital Collections of the Los Angeles Public Library. https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/collection/photos/id/12575/rec/155

Cocoanut Grove. Ambassador Hotel. View 1: Interior view of the Cocoanut Grove in the Ambassador Hotel located in Los Angeles, showing the elegant decor of the room, where palm trees are set amongst the table. American. Undated image, 1930s-1950s ish perhaps. Photographer not given. Security Pacific National Bank Collection, TESSA, the Digital Collections of the Los Angeles Public Library. https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/collection/photos/id/99950/rec/170

At the Cocoanut Grove, Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, California with the photograph’s caption dated February 19, 1938 and reading: “Eddy Duchin, orchestra leader, and Glenda Farrell, film actress, are pictured helping Lanny Ross, radio singer, light his cigaret [sic] with a candle during an informal chat between dances at the Cocoanut Grove the other evening.” American. Len Weisman, photographer. Photographed for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner Newspaper. Los Angeles Herald Examiner Newspaper Collection, TESSA, the Digital Collections of the Los Angeles Public Library. https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/collection/photos/id/33785/rec/261

*Cocoanut Grove Conga Line; Guests at the Cocoanut Grove on June 22, 1940, are shown doing a hot La Conga after the show.* Los Angeles, California. American. Photographed for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner Newspaper. Los Angeles Herald Examiner Newspaper Collection, TESSA, the Digital Collections of the Los Angeles Public Library. https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/collection/photos/id/20359/rec/276

*The logo for the Cocoanut Grove nightclub at the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, California. At least in 1945, the date on this one.* American. Shades of Los Angeles Photo Collection. TESSA, the Digital Collections of the Los Angeles Public Library. https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/collection/photos/id/80121/rec/288

Update. I thank my Instagram content creator friend Scott Stirewalt who works with these sorts of pictures more than I do who let me know that those are arrows over the men’s heads in the first picture pointing to who is who. Now I know!

An envisioning. 1985, Seattle on an October Friday and sitting on the bench at the end of the pier waiting on the ferry out to Vashon.

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/an-envisioning-1985-seattle-on-an

Oh to be here.

Only for the long weekend, and that being for Christopher Columbus, so not bathing-suit-and-sunscreen time. The children playing pine cone toss in a front yard filled with something more garden-store-pretty than sea pebbles that got put down after the roses died. No, out where they have farms instead of grocery stores. Grass that semi-seeds itself and doesn’t care if you can only grow plants indoors.

my new short fiction piece published to my Substack at the link if you’d like to read the rest . The image is from 1967 and is in a Massachusetts archive-