That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for May 19, 2022

My original reply in 2017:

“Honey, I’m really sorry. You’ve got to understand, in the dark your sister looks a lot like you.”

Sorry, no – I can’t guess what this bouquet symbolizes in the language of flowers.

/// He’s a master at fashioning wood

into objects she’d told him were good.

Drop-leaf table and chest,

spinning wheel and the rest,

but her feelings he’d misunderstood.

/// At her window each morn Szymon had her.

Forced to chat, which just made her feel sadder.

So he stands there today

with a proffered bouquet.

Maja wished he had not built that ladder.

/// Szymon’s sixty, while Maja’s still young.

She has dreams of love. To them she’s clung.

She’s not willing to settle. “I must be on my mettle.

For tomorrow I’ll weaken a rung.”

Large Marge was flattered by the attention, but it would be better if Peter didn’t bring her the flowers that she was allergic to.

Ma’am? Would you like to buy a flower? The night soil collection cart is just a block behind me.

Every time she had a minute to read her kindle someone would interrupt her. The first thing was to get the latch on the window fixed!

Rumpelstiltskin convinces the miller’s daughter that she could spin flowers into straw! Or was it straw into gold. His mind was split over the matter.

Okay mum. Couldn’t find posies. If you show me the rings around your rosies, I’ll strike a match and then we’ll be done with it. Fair enough.

Aargh! The cursor bar, at the end of the date! Make it go away!

He comes to her window each day/

And he brings her a small bouquet/

And the window is open/

because she is hopin’/

He will climb in and lead her astray..///

And she seems to own one or two books/

And she sometimes writes verse/

(Which is probably worse)/

but she cleans, and she sews, and she cooks..///

Someday soon they will manage to mate../

They’ll commingle their genes to create/

A presence pathetic/

(yet profoundly poetic)../

A perpetual “ward of the state”.

Melinda had asked her dad to pick up flour for her; seems he will not be getting a birthday cake tonight.

The set pieces for Romeo and Juliet were low budget for this production.

With her tingling, tremulous lips / And a deep warming low in her hips / ’Tis said to relate / Such a cruel twist of fate! / All he wanted was gardening tips.

Before the airplane was invented Hare Krishnas had all their hair and went window to window.

Oh, Ludwig. You’re the Most.

“Ta Da,” “For my next trick…”

Agnes these flowers are for you but alas it is your sister Alice I seek?

Looks like Stella is checking out her peg-legged roommates ass.

“Flowers again? If you really want to win my heart, show me how to work this damn I-pad.”

Weizacker farm couple: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"File:Ludwig August Most - Bauernpaar aus dem Weizacker (1850).jpg" site=commons.wikimedia.org 

(syntax supported by the Google and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and chose the first File: link found for info and links that point to more info (best viewed using Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most webpages if necessary) about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by merely clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #1713 (5/22/17) (May 18, 2022) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment. I have added a comment there (awaiting Mr. Melcher’s approval) pointing to the artist info I used to point to here. So far, 3 works by this artist have been used here (4 times, including this Throwback Thursday repeat). The May 24, 2017, strip has the prior. The May 22, 2017, strip has this painting’s first use (the artist URL in my comment there is the here link in my blog comment).

Not only do I have to deal with this creepy guy popping into my window, I have this creepy painter barging into my room to paint the scene.

Lupines? The cats choked to death on lupines.

“It’s not that I really mind it, miss. But wouldn’t it be more convenient for you to get a vase to hold them in?”

Since she couldn’t hear anything with those earmuffs, he usually pantomimed. Today, he brought props.