That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for March 26, 2024

Virgil did all he could to control himself when he saw the woman wearing his late girlfriend’s plume.

Constance; visiting a hat farm.

Hey LIMU, have you seen my boyfriend Doug?

/// At the zoo, she is, to her dismay,

tête à tête with a bird on display.

The sign says “Common Crane,”

but to Séphora’s brain,

he’s the same as a stork. (Naïveté?)

/// She’d just learned she is pregnant— (her sins!)

Maybe more than one. (She never wins.)

She fears pain during birth

and would give all she’s worth

if a stork could deliver her twins.

No ifs, ands, nor butts.

I don’t get this. Military school?

You can run, but you cannot hide. Your pagan behavior Will Be rewarded.

We tried but he didn’t last. Bone spurs you know.

She’s a woman who joyfully wears/

the styles of écoles militaires/

But somehow she now knows/

She offends “Les oiseaux”:/

The question is whether she cares..///

Hitherto she has given no thought/

To the source of the plumes that she’s bought:/

But now she descries/

In those avian eyes/

Condemnation ! A lesson’s been taught..///

She’s discovered her love of plumes/

Is the reason for avian dooms:/

Henceforth, from this morn/

Any hats to be worn/

She’ll adorn just with clusters of blooms !

(Nuthin could be “bether” than to give up fur and feather in the mor-ornin’…)

“Okay, Lady win. You definitely have better legs !”

Everybody knows that the bird is the word.

“Oh, Mme. Crane, how do I keep my mate as faithful to me as yours is to you?”

They shared a common thought “what a strange looking creature””

Let me see you stand on one leg like this!

“Yes, your butt looks big, even with that hat.”

She wore the feather in protest of her lover being given a life sentence for the murder of the endangered (but quite yummy) lizard. It is quite the tragic love story.

No, I won’t give you another feather. You could add six feathers to your hat and it still would not disguise the fact that your dress is stretched way to tightly across your bum.

Look, if you want to stand on one leg, you’re going to need to wear a skirt instead of that dress.

Martha, hoping to learn how to stand on one leg like that…

That bird has nice legs

“Ok, Dearie! Register here for a special present! Just step over and talk with the gentleman in that cabin over there! He’ll guide you through the sign up.”

“From my bird’s eye view, you have more of a bubble butt rather than a duck’s a$$.”

One by one the devious birds lured humans into the captivity of their zoo.

This painting is titled, “Booty Call!” or “The Lonely Crane’s Lament.”

Penelope “Patch” Adams learned an important lesson that day: Never rile up anything within pecking range of your eyes.

Now the stork can go home and tell its friends about the exotic creature it saw at the zoo.

“The unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible.”

LOL I was thinking she wanted to return the feather in her hat! Until I read the first of Ishmael’s sonnets…

Wow, she has a nice … art.

“But you have to take back my child … you don’t have a leg to stand on!”

Common crane or Private meeting: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Paintings by Albert Guillaume" Wikimedia 

(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 020, and click its link for info and links that point to more info (perhaps best viewed using the Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox browsers, which can automatically translate most webpages if necessary) about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting. 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3293 (March 26, 2024) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger, if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). 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 him have been used here, the March 19, 2024, strip being the prior.

Sorry lady, I haven’t seen your kids.

I just wish my husband was built like you.

In my humble opinion…the dress is tight enough, just much too long………

Yankee Doodle Dandy also stuck feathers in other peoples’ hats.