That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for October 14, 2021

Sequel to “Paper Moon” in which Moze and Addie (Ryan and Tatum O’Neal), go to France. Addie pretends to be a boarding school classmate of Madeline, and they approach her Papa demanding money for “wrongful incitement to have an unnecessary appendectomy.”

“Okay, when asked you tell them you are the missing daughter of Grandma Edith’s late son.”

“The aliens who come to France prefer flower circle, not crop circles.”

“What are those, grandpa?”

“Zits, honey. And the guy that popped that one was never seen again."

When I was your age and had to walk home, this was 6 feet of snow.

A papa and his daughter walk by. / Then he turns and exhales a deep sigh. / “What is wrong, Father dear?” / “I’m just sad to be here, / The place Rose Parade floats go to die.”

“Remind me to get some Preparation H when we get home, Penelope.”

Grandpere? Why did you have the Uber driver drop us off at the front gate?

I TOLD your mother that those giant jam tarts, no matter what a good deal they were, would get mouldy before we manage to eat them all, didn’t I? But does she ever listen?

I’ll report that cab driver for dropping / us off here. He then goes without stopping. / We are nowhere, instead / of what I clearly said, / “Drive us both to the Target for shopping.”

They both wanted to rest on the bench, / but his daughter could not stand the stench / of the blooms that abound / on that feculent mound. / (It’s a tasty cheese smell to the French.)

Having recently discovered Priceless, it all new to me.

The changes to the death tax will take care of that dream.

Makes me think of a certain orange cretin and his icky daughter.

Maisy Biden?

“Look Papa, there’s a bench here where we can sit and wait for your friend Godot!”

sunday in the park with mimette…

The Holy Grail Gardens. The shrubberies, the Castle Anthrax, to the right, the path to The Black Knight.

Which path to take to Jim Morrison’s tomb?

Grandpa, what is a “week-end?”

Daddy, look! They’ve landed!

“And this is the garden where/ the famous Charles Baudelaire/ wrote his “Fleurs du Mal”/ when he ran afoul/ of the censor – and then lost his hair.”

No matter what anyone says/cocaine don’t belong in your nez/ and that Morrison guy/ has no reason to lie/ near Chopin in Pere Lachaise.

That’ll light a few fires…

“ The ‘age of consent’ ? Qu’est-ce-que c’est ?”

She is a budding domestic terrorist in search of a dog show.

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and we—we took the one between two breast looking shrubs” Robert Frost. No?

Pleased the groundskeeper was able to remove the nipple teat added by the frat boys, he could safely walk his granddaughter on the pathways once again.

Why are there giant flowery hats sitting in the yard?

Either Gustave had a few issues with scale, or that bench is sized for squirrels.

Grandpa, can we take a break and sit on the bench for awhile?

" Grand-père, now that Killer and Fang are gone, don’t you think we can take down those Beware of Vicious Dogs signs from the gates, so that the taxi will take us all the way to the house. "

“I wish someone would hurry up and invent blacktop”

The Park on the Caillebotte Property at Yerres: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Caillebotte,_Parc.jpg 

(best viewed with Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most webpages as necessary) has info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting. Other versions has the archive of the strip coloration image origin.

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

https://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/2015/08/masterpiece-1279.html 

I have added a comment there (awaiting Mr. Melcher’s approval) pointing to the artist info I used to point to here. So far, 14 works by this artist, have been used here (17 times total, including this Throwback Thursday repeat, and 2 earlier repeats). 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2015/08/17?comments=visible 

has the first time this was used here (the 18 hyperlinks in my comment there have been deactivated, but perhaps the text remains informative).

My original post in 2015 was also about aliens but somewhat different:

“Sweetie, always make sure the landing areas look like flower beds so the neighbors don’t suspect.”

“Or pending the outcome of the board of director’s meeting I’ve called, Father.”

In the garden at Mr. Caillebotte’s/ the flowers are not kept in pots/ and the gardeners there/ are tres “laissez faire”/ which accounts for the uncovered spots…

For somebody like Courbet/ Caillebotte’s best would be mere child’s play/ and his finest display/ would elicit “Oy vey !”/ from somebody like Manet..

You may say that he’s no Corot/- that his labors lack Gauguin’s “glow”/but you’d better believe/ if he’s posted by Steve/ that his paintings are worth some dough…

So, Caillebotte, here’s a big Hoorah!/ though you’re not in the league of Degas/ and you’re stuff is still dreck/ next to Toulouse-Lautrec/ you’re still not forgotten, n’est-ce pas?

come up to the big house and see how pretty it is from my bedroom window, my little child

Right here is where I first kissed your mother. This was a wheat field back then.

“Itchycoo Park” by the Small Faces………google it.