That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for November 13, 2020

“No, I’m not doing this to improve my posture.”

Joe finally admits to himself that he may be a little lost, and stops to ask the first person he sees the direction to the intersection of 4th and East 13th street.

Amateur voyeur has not yet learned how to focus his telescope.

“Maybe in another 80 years there will be a closer coin op laundry.”

“Whoa! Did you see that tree?”“Gnarly, dude!”

ents waiting for the humans to finish arguing about what, exactly, is the way to san jose…

She’ll never fall for that line about the basket.

“Jeez will these two ever move. Hey, I’m trying to do a landscape here!”

Dorthy and the scarecrow about to sample some apples.

Another “Road “ picture..long after Hope (and Crosby) is gone…

Man threatens to kick up dust unless lady gives him a quarter.

What do you mean you forgot my spicy mustard!? Well, it’s not dark for another hour.

There’s always a faint aroma/ of cannabis ‘round Herr Thoma/ which gives the impression/ that before each session/ he descended into a coma..

“This old highway map says we’re at ‘The Valley of the Jolly “Ho Ho Ho”. . .’ but the darn thing has been folded so often that I can’t read the rest of the name."

“O.K. We’re far enough away for anyone to hear, so I’ll admit it. I did vote for Joe Biden!”

Well Godot, it’s about time, I been waiting here long enough.

Pretty good. A simpler, “May I take your clothes?” works for me.

And you will see a stranger, across an empty field……

GUY: Let me get this straight – if we have sex, you’ll give me a boy with a moon and star on his head in 9 months? HARD PASS!

Tortured reference to a Cat Stevens’ song

For reasons she couldn’t quite figure out, Greta was suddenly inspired to tell her husband that he needed to do some “man-scaping.”

The Ündershotts always wanted to “be in pictures”. For a price, their nephew, Fat Hans Thoma, obliged them.

Summer (Landscape near Karlsruhe): 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hans_Thoma_-_Landschaft_bei_Karlsruhe_(1891).jpg 

has info and links that point to info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/thoma_hans.html 

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=5026 

http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803104005692 

https://learn.ncartmuseum.org/artists/hans-thoma/ 

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/t/thoma/biograph.html 

http://www.hans-thoma.com/ 

http://www.safran-arts.com/42day/art/art4oct/art1002.html 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, Chrome can automatically translate if needed), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 10 works by him have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2020/11/03?comments=visible 

has the prior (my comment there included the same artist info URLs, the second of which may be unresponsive).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2577 (November 12, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Really, we’ve got to stop meeting like this. My neck is killing me.

As I was going to St. Ives,

I met but one of the seven wives.

I dreamed I met a Galilean, a most amazing man,………

Maria, hoping to meet john, took the very long way to the laundromat

I honestly can’t see what those white things are at the bottom left of the picture. Are they some kind of birds? Pigeons, chickens? Or just rocks? I can’t see them even with the picture enlarged.

You brought an umbrella in case of rain, instead of a basket full of clothes to be under? What a novel idea! I might try that next time.

The road to Karlsruhe is paved with good intentions…