That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for April 14, 2023

Yvonne found a shady place where she could take off her bonnet. Now, she wanted to make sure it was secluded enough to take off…

/// She seems innocent, honest and sweet,

as she waits on that ornate stone seat.

With her hand to one ear,

she is straining to hear

the soft stealthy approach of men’s feet.

/// That lone Woman who sits in a Bower

has been Seated there one quarter hour.

She is here to sell six

smuggled (scarce) condor chicks,

hidden in that hat marked with a flower.

Elizabeth snuck off to a secluded bench so she could take of her hat and pick at her ear without her mother complaining that she was being immodest.

“If I could just remember where I buried my husband.”

This earwax is killing me.

Actually in many non-US countries, cellphones are known as “handphones”, making the caption funnier.

Talk to the hand!

Millie spent the next several hours trying to figure out how her uncle pulled a quarter from her ear

Helen had a bee in her bonnet, now she has a buzzing in her ear.

The front caption says date unknown but maybe she just wants to forget him.

The upside of painting a narcoleptic was that they stayed still. The downside was that it took them two hours to strip down for the nude paintings.

Hannah finally gets rid of that earworm.

“Such a rich vein. And me without my earwax jar.”

Reaching out about the extended car warranty was more hands on back then.

The morning after. – The down side of yesterday’s hookah party.

Woman Seated in a Bower: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Eugène Devéria" 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 NGA, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly B5 paper size drawing.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3114 (April 13, 2023) 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 (awaiting Mr. Melcher’s approval) pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. First work by this artist used here.

lady jane forgot her cell phone, no worry just pretend you have one. no one pays any attention to her anyway.

That sneak! He paid me pennies to be a living statue … and now I can’t break character while he paints me!

Agent 86.5

Arnold stop calling me…I told you I’m not it the mood for love!

Handmaid’s day off.