That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for June 01, 2023

My original post in 2015:

“You call that a yacht‽”

Emma was expecting something a little more classy to elope in.

Somebody call an Uber?

Kind of Now Wishing She Had Worn Jeans

No problem. Just ask him to row to San Francisco to buy a pair.

“Boat is boat,…”

“It’s also a flotation device!”

“Excuse me sir, by chance are you from Nantucket?”

" I’ll come back in a couple of hours when the tide comes in some more."

I don’t think Lars is going to be able to satisfy Ingeborg’s nautical fantasy with his little dinghy.

“So I think maybe I need to explain my meaning when I said ’It’s not the size of the boat, it’s the motion of the ocean’….”

“No, ma’am, we’re going boating. You shouldn’t have dressed for swimming.”

“Is that an oar or are you really happy to see me?”

“… and you pull this right oar to turn to your left. Got it? Good! Because those are the only driving instructions you are getting from me!”

Likely Lake Siljan – Zorn lived in Mora which is on its northwestern corner. On the eastern bank is Nusnas, home of Sweden’s iconic red wooden horses.

She: Fishing! I thought this was a romantic and pleasuring row in the boat?

Summer Fun: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Sommarnöje by Anders Zorn" site=commons.wikimedia.org 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found, and once there find the text string akvarell, and click its link for info and links that point to more info (perhaps best viewed using Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most webpages if necessary) about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting. Other versions has strip coloration image.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by merely clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #1224 (6/1/15) (May 31, 2023) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment. I have added a comment there pointing to the blog entry with my comment pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 4 works by this artist have been used here (6 times total, including a repeat, and now this Throwback Thursday), the June 1, 2015, strip being its first use. GoComics has deactivated the hyperlinks and removed the new lines in my comment and reply there; but, perhaps the text remains informative. The April 7, 2023, strip has the prior by him.

“That is Priceless”…

don’t YOU DARE JUMP INTO THE WATER. with all those dresses you’ll soak up the whole lake

If you think this is troublesome check out photographs of Victorian women mountain climbing in dresses. A lady did not wear pants. Period.

This is another of several Masterpieces for which all of my original Comments (and Replies to others) were deleted by GoComics and not later restored. Nearly a year later I’ve decided to do my best to recreate at least one response for each of those paintings:

/// She had come for some Summer Fun, rowing,

but was not sure now how she’d be going.

If she jumped for the boat

and missed, she’d never float.

If she hit it, her ankle’d be showing.

/// He complained she’s a bit overdressed,

By those words she appeared to be stressed.

She said, "I’ve been in boats

wearing more petticoats,

while for this one I’d need a life vest.

/// “Your timing was poor;” the girl cried,

“We should never have met at low tide.”

Replied he, “Never fear!”

and tied up to the pier

where he clambered straight up to her side.

/// There they waited as waters rose higher.

In a flask he had whiskey to ply her.

Before long they’d begun

to have sweet Summer Fun,

rocking not from the waves, but desire.