That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for September 23, 2021

Three sisters have sold their cherry orchard to their dear uncle Vanya but are now trying to rescue a fallen seagull. These things they will check off their list for today. They’ve just been rushin’ around for hours. They just wish they could get a marriage proposal. Ah, well.

Swamp Sisters of the Everglades. Season 2 Episode 3: How Lilly Lost Her Arm.

Where’s my contact lens?

polly cautioned lolly, watch the piranhas, love…

There, with that weight and chain, the police will never find him

Water you reaching for Lilly?

Why is it always that the less popular girl has to do all the rowing, while the other two loll around, dragging their hands through the water?

Nothing could be better than to help Colette get wetter in the mor-or-nin’..

Visiting the watery grave of their dear friend (and fourth for bridge), Lilly.

And so the princess returned the grateful frog – no longer a prince – to the Lillypad where she had found him. “He was rather a disappointment,“ she told her friends. “ Not everyone is up to the responsibilities of the ‘Princing’ business. He’ll be happier here. And the flies are far more abundant.“

Lily Smith, Lily Jones, and Lily Featherstonehaugh on the Thames.

Ginny reached out to pluck a white lily, / though the water was stagnant and chilly. / The adornment was apt / for the thing which was wrapped / in the blanket— their late Uncle Willie. /// He had talked about changing his will, / and so, this was the right time to kill / the old miserly bore. / Now they’d row far from shore, / dump the corpse, and then move to Brazil.

After a crazy Bachelorette party of drinking while rowing the night before, the Bridemaides worked quickly to round up their corsages they lost in the water.

Baiting gators.

So pretty and shapely and slim/ yet poor Lilly was dreadfully dim/ she almost “had it all”/ but after the fall/ they recalled that she just couldn’t swim..

“And just how are we meant to hunt gators without bait?”

“Not a problem, dearie….”

I did not know that the Thames had a bayou. And are the ladies all anosmic?

My original comment September 23, 2019:

Eleanor thought giving Lilly a lily was the best way to let her know she wanted her to be her special friend.

“There! The ‘oars’ are in the water now. How do you start the motor?”

Women of the neighborhood pranking Monet by putting paper mache waterlilies in his pond at night. The rest is art history.

Thames lilies: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Brooks_-_Thames_lilies.jpg 

has info and links that point to more info about this painting. First Other versions has the strip coloration image.

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

http://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/2019/09/masterpiece-2291.html 

I have added a comment there (awaiting Mr. Melcher’s approval) pointing to the artist info I used to point to here. First work by this artist used here (2 times, including this repeat). 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2019/09/23?comments=visible 

has the first use of this (my comment there includes 2 of the artist info URLs also pointed to by the here links in my blog entry comment).

While now perceived to be a sport practiced mainly by rural folk, Noodling originated among the genteel ladies of London.

“GET ME SOME CATFISH, ESTHER!”

“Row? I thought one of you was gonna motorboat me.”

Three big fans of the great Edward Lear / rowed about on the Thames every year. / They had nicknames which fit / with Lear’s poetic wit, / and they paid him a tribute, sincere. /// Min, “The Owl,” had a mind sharp and keen. / Kit, “The Pussy-cat,” never was mean. / They took along honey, / and plenty of money, / and the beauty, Miss Bote, (who pees green).

“What a glorious day! Hi, lily, hi lily—hi lo!”

What the …? Is that Jimmy Hoffa?

And thus was born Lake Placid’s “Lady of the Lake”.

and right here is where that nice fellow, Crocodile Dundee he said he was, helped me catch a croc!

Intentionally coming out all this way to clean his clothes while he waits around in a thong? Mighty “devilish” of you.

Ain’t even gonna try. That original caption is perfect !

Your phone case is waterproof, right?

How much further before we find our dates. I am so hot!