That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for May 20, 2020

The Sheep family always liked to spend a few day at seashore before the busy shearing season started.

“It’s sure been easy getting great campsites since the humans disappeared!”

“Geeze, this painter is slow. I don’t know if I can even stand up now.”

When herding sheep this close to the cliff you have to be able to make a ewe turn.

Well son, it’s complicated. Six months ago we were Democrats. Now we are Republicans. Six months in the future we might just be canned Spam.

“Look on the bright side, son. Since we taste like mutton our life expectancy is ten limes longer than that of a pig.”

Uno, dos, one, two, tres, quatro

Matty told Hatty about a thing she saw

Had two big horns and a wooly jaw

Wooly bully, wooly bully

Wooly bully, wooly bully, wooly bully

Matty told Hatty, that’s the thing to do

Get you someone really to shear the wool with you

Wooly bully, wooly bully

Wooly bully, wooly bully, wooly bully

Uh-oh, do I hear ram-a lama and the incredible ding dong approaching?!

“Hey Bo, I found your sheep”

Sheep parents explaining to their kid on the virtues of virgin wool.

My sister is married to a Scot; she said “He’s never slept with a sheep” (popular idea about Scotsmen). I said “He sleeps with ewe”

Haven’t had a shearing since mid-March – excited the baa-baa shops will open again soon.

Though her pockets were known to be deep/ Rosa Bonheur was dreadfully cheap:/ she constantly raved/ about how much she saved/ on models, by just painting sheep.

She painted the sheep by the sea/(a nice enough place to be)/ but the greater appeal/ for the little schlemiel/ was the fact that the background is free.

Surfer Sheep waiting for high tide.

“You are here / So am I / Maybe millions of people go by / But they all disappear from view / And I only have eyes for ewe.” Apologies to Harry Warren (music) and Al Dubin (lyrics): 1934.

Sam the sheep taking a break from the poison ivy removal business

Go tell Little Bo Peep her sheep are here…

I guess Steve was feeling a little sheepish today.

So I slept with the herdsman last night. So what. Big deal. Get over it.

Early Sominex label art.

I think the one on the left is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

For the sheep and goats, this pandemic lockdown has opened up lots of green pastures for them. Here, they’ve reclaimed Sheeps Meadow in Central Park, New York.

MOM: This kid’s been a real disappointment. DAD: That because he’s not a goat. MOM: What a relief. I’ve always believed Billy was his father. DAD: BAH.

Sheep by the Sea: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rosa_Bonheur_-_Sheep_by_the_Sea_(1865).jpg

has info and links that point to info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting. References has strip coloration image.

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

https://www.wikiart.org/en/rosa-bonheur 

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=1016 

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/b/bonheur/rosa/biograph.html 

https://www.clarkart.edu/Mini-Sites/Women-Artists-in-Paris/Rosa-Bonheur 

https://www.daheshmuseum.org/spotlight-on-march-april-2017 

https://www.artrenewal.org/Artist/Index/333 

https://books.google.com/books?id=UK_jTggtYl8C&pg=PT300#v=onepage&q=&f=false 

http://www.schillerandbodo.com/artists/bonheur/artworks/lion-at-rest 

https://www.theartstory.org/artist-bonheur-rosa.htm 

https://arthistoryproject.com/artists/rosa-bonheur/ 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist, perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 3 works by her have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2019/06/24?comments=visible 

has the prior (my restored today comment there included the same artist info URls, the 3rd of which may be unresponsive).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2453 (May 19, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Ram and Ewe: “Little lamb who made thee, dost thou know who made thee?” Lamb: “Oh great, I’m getting THAT talk. I learned that in school.”

Incomplete since the painter lost sleep after counting up to that number.

Sheep asleep by the sea.

“Stop complaining. I told you wool shrinks when it gets wet.”

Where sheep may safely gaze…

That’s what the wolf said!

“Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey…”

Say it 5 times fast:

Shirley shears sheep by the sea so she can share the shears with the shepherds.

Shapely Shirley shares the shears/ and something more, as it appears/ but with the passing of the years/ Shirley’s shape soon disappears..