whispering on air as the last ribbon of the aurora borealis fades into black as waiting for dusk to fall out at the end of a long forgotten Hollywood alley the rooms in the long demolished movie star’s mansion inch back into life in brilliant colors of red, blue and green as the film maker from a few planets over gets ready to shoot . . . movies shown a hundred years ago that spoke of long ago people from other worlds coming to call . . . time to return the favor and call on them instead . . .

my winter series post for today published to my Substack at the link. The lovely hand blown fruit holiday ornament image is from @johnderiancompany on Instagram.

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/theatrical-set-designs-and-other-846

smouldering on air with the scent of pine from the boughs wrapped around the stairs as somewhere close to the northern sea the polar bears yawn in their winter homes and the reindeer jump when their herder’s little girl whistles . . . northern lights as a ribbon dancing across the sky in green and white . . . time to try to get closer and watch as the ribbons dance in their own ballet . . . closer and closer but you’ll never get there . . . but to try, that’s the thing . . .

my series post for today published to my Substack at the link

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/theatrical-set-designs-and-other-b37

Happy Hanukkah to my Jewish friends and followers.

The image is: Hanukkah display at the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York in 2021. Made by Corning Glassworks/Steuben Crystal from flameworked glass. 2021 image (but on display now) Taken from the Museum’s Instagram.

dancing on air on the smile of a baby whale swimming after her mama as far up where the summer people used to spend their Julys before the tidal waves took them all . . . sparkles floating up followed by a round of applause . . . used to have plays in their boathouses with the audience in black tie and evening gowns sitting all around the edge and stars brought up from New York to sing and dance with children dressed up as fairies flying from wires attached to the rafters . . . all of that gone but something to see it was . . . if you are quiet enough you can sneak through the woods and watch it too . . . gone in a bit in a puff of pink smoke but not quite yet . . . a memory for life to tell your grandbabies about . . .

my winter series post for today published on my Substack at the link if you’d like to see

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/theatrical-set-designs-and-other-89a

sparkling on air on the tip of a little tiger’s tail as she cuddles up with her sisters and brothers for a nap as somewhere in an opera company’s warehouse it all begins again . . . prop after prop and scrims painted with every scene possible . . . arias sung so long ago they are almost forgotten except in the wee corners of the internet search engines . . . maybe it is time to bring them back . . .

my series post for today at the link if you’d like to see it. The image is from Cirque de Soleil.

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/theatrical-set-designs-and-other-72b

effervescing on air at the tip of a little hedgehog’s tail as she sits under the shade of a tree as somewhere down where nothing white ever falls from the sky a plume of colored something and then clouds of pink and green . . . the old airfield where no one ever stops but running there today . . . a circus troupe in the old hangar . . . a dance with someone got up as a bear in the aisle and someone else on a trapeze hanging from the rafters . . . all the ice cold sodas you want and popcorn and candy that will wreck your dinner . . .

my series post for today published to my Substack at the link if you’d like to see –

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/theatrical-set-designs-and-other-859