That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for September 23, 2019

Eleanor thought giving Lilly a lily was the best way to let her know she wanted her to be her special friend.

“All he ever did was watch football, so I’ll just “punt” his ashes right into the drink here.”

The moment before Claudette lost a finger to a snapping turtle.

Sorry, the hunk of a lifeguard over there is mine!

Rub-a-dub-goat, three women in a boat: a spinster, a widower, and one with a boyfriend who was way too trusting of the other two.

The abandoned shark was resting under some fronds in the innocent-appearing lily pond. Slowly he turned….

I told you, Beth. This 8th chocolate margarita shot was not a good idea…

“Well you said you wanted to go out for a drink…”

Hey, I think I see Jimmy Hoffa down there.

“Watch me “innocently” splash her with the oar"

You know how I catch all the fish? Every time I cast my line, I say a ‘Hail Mary.’

~F. Corleone

With all those rocks in his pockets, he definitely sank to the bottom – you don’t have to try to hide where he is with floating flowers!

Narcissusia discovers the beautiful woman that lives in the water.

After hearing about The Frog Prince, the three friends went on a frustrating search.

her friends had serious concerns about collette’s lily pad fetish…

Why men don’t take women bass fishing.

By yon streamlet’s sylvan shores/ behold ! A boatload of whores !/ One sweet, fragile filly/ is plucking a lilly / whilst the sturdiest plies the oars…

Water Babies grown up?

Oh look, cement shoes!

croc huntresses

Long after the sinking, 3 ladies of the Titanic finally make it to shore whereupon, genteel ladies that they are, they try using water lillies to cover four months of sweat and, well,…

“Karen, I’ve warned you about going overboard with this flower-collecting hobby.”

The ladies from the Temperance Union spent their Sundays cleaning foul debris from the waterways, leaving them sterile and featureless.

Norah Jones’s song Miriam came to mind. I always thought what a sweet little thing she is , until I heard that song.

“Swamp People” – 1870 version.

Thames lilies: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Brooks_-_Thames_lilies.jpg 

(best viewed with Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to info about this painting. First Other versions has strip coloration.

http://www.avictorian.com/Brooks_Thomas.html 

http://www.askart.com/artist/Thomas_Brooks/11019333/Thomas_Brooks.aspx 

both have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, the last can be read in full for free on Fridays), perhaps in addition to than what’s perhaps indirectly pointed to by the title URL: 

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Brooks_(Maler) 

(again, Chrome can automatically translate online text as necessary). This is the first work by him used here.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2291 (September 22, 2019) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

“Gawd we’re over dressed. Oh well… c’mon, last one in is a rotten egg…..”

Punting on the Thames turned out to be a lot more fun after puffing on the joint.

Chapter 1 of ’Alice’s Adventures Underwater’ (subtitle: Life is but a Dream.)

I can’t believe I fell for what the frog was saying … Prince my ass! I’m putting him back where I found him.

“Well, here are some bits of his parachute …”

“Seriously Karen, I am REALLY not thirsty!”