That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for June 23, 2021

“I don’t know about you, but I see future subdivisions here!”

Because there were no crops yet for making circles, the aliens did a Zen Garden instead.

So do we get the subsidy or not?

“Why are you out standing in your field?”

“And after we build the strip mall here we will call it Elm Street Mall. That tree will have to go.”

The farmer, at rest from his labors, / gazed off ‘cross the fields at his neighbors. / And right there at his side / was his cross-dressing bride, / expelled here by bigots with sabers.

Said the Czech soothsayer to his son: “One day, my boy, all of this will be yours. And then, when your hard labors have made the land fruitful and abundant, it will be nationalized into a people’s collective.

Johnny Appleseed stared and then said, “I’m thinking balanced diet here. You think we could work in a couple of steers?”.

Strawberry fields forever.

“Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.”

After he bought the trampoline, the Czech bounced. (Inevitable…)

landscape with goldbrickers

“Sudetenland bleibt deutsch !” father said./ But the matter soon came to a head/ there were Germans in tanks/ then Russia’s vast ranks/ and for decades the Moldau ran red./// Now Dvorak’s and Smetana’s nation/ home to Dussek’s and Kafka’s creations/ is a stop on a cruise/(which you’ll miss if you snooze/en route to more chic destinations.

John Adams: “See what a few smallpox filled blankets can accomplish?”

Or, we could just go get plowed.

Prepping for this fall’s demands for corndogs, funnel cakes, and beer.

And he still had time to sow alittle oats.

Years later they emerged from their sealed shelter to find that all of humanity had perished. The world had come full circle — back to a garden, a tree with a snake, and the only two people on earth.

Ironically, this time they WERE Adam and Steve.

Auržinowes Kaurzimer Kr. nach Tarraba: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aur%C5%BEinowes_Kaurzimer_Kr._nach_Tarraba_gemahlt_von_Joann_Venuto.jpg 

(best viewed by Google Chrome, which can translate most webpages as necessary) has info and links that point to more info about this watercolor on wove paper roughly letter size painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image at 

https://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/2021/06/masterpiece-2733_22.html 

I have added a comment there pointing to the artist info I used to point to here. First work by this artist used here.

Who are you calling a sow-and-sow?

Why, yes, I did sow some wild oats.

Said young Jakob to his fellow Amish, / “I propose that that I visit the Squamish. / ‘Canadian Fling,’ a / B.C.-based Rumspringa… / I can see thy reaction is qualmish.”

Even before I saw the artist’s nationality, the scene reminded me of a couple Czech towns we visited in 2012.

I wouldn’t go to the right of that tree … there is this weird guy there.

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2021/06/22?ct=v&cti=1249643