That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for February 27, 2024

Inga the Valkyrie realized with 3 days left, she still had not met the month’s quota of souls for Odin.

a new definition of bare back

Every night Pegasus she would straddle/

And together aloft they’d skedaddle/

And pursue palpitations/

To new elevations:/

But then why is she riding sidesaddle?

So she has no problem riding through the sky completely naked, but she does it side saddle so as not to be immodest?

I see – she’s having one of those dreams.

Ginny Weasely rushed right out of bed when she realized that she had to get the rental back to the Budget office before midnight or she would have to pay a late fee.

How not to ride a flying horse.

I think that’s enough for tonight. I can’t wait to see the dream interpretation forums in the morning. And I guess we gave those UFO spotters something new to talk about for once too.

Fire the stable boy for not hitching the saddle tight.

/// In this Symbolist work, “A Dream Idyll,”

a winged steed soars, sans saddle or bridle.

Mounted clutching his pinion,

the girl, in my opinion,

shows she’s foolish; perhaps suicidal.

When you gotta go, you gotta go.

Dream Idyll? Is that the dream for the Valkerie or for the horse?

The horse looks like it wants her to let go of the wing feathers so it can flap. If Lady Godiva rode a flying horse then her long hair would not be a good cover up.

“I’m getting so forgetful these days! I really wish I had tied back my lovely locks. Oh, yes – and I should have put on a dress. To Walmart we go, Pegasus”!

((“I thought bareback would be more exciting than this.”))

Should she be holding onto his wings while he’s flying?

ATC wants to have a little talk with you….

Godiva learns that adding roughage to the diet is good advice for her horse, too.

She’s a regular real lady she is! See, she’s sitting side saddle.

To the artist; on the downstroke of that wing, she’s going to be thrown off pretty hard and fast….

A nude Norse on a horse

Of course, course

Won’t be the Valkyrie

Right from the source

Does she ride bareback without remorse?

Talk to Miss Edda …

Same as a jet dumping fuel?

In the face of impending divorce/

For solace, she turns to a horse/

She likes her proximity/

to equine equanimity:/

(No clothing required, of course..)

Sick of dating apps, Mary decided that flying around naked on a horse was the way to pick up men. Well, she was getting noticed that is for sure!

That has to be itchy on her butt!

Exxon astride Pegasus searching for new oil fields.

I get the feeling I forgot to do something…..oh well!

HOIO-TO-OH! HOIO-TO-OH! HEYA-HAAAAA!!!

Godiva, finding out that her hair trick doesn’t work so well when her steed can do 140 with a good tailwind.

That is one breathtakingly beautiful painting!

Sol, Ish… you outdid yourselves today! Bravo!!

Something up there dropped a metallic [glop of fecal matter, because the “banned list” is silly] that was made into King Tut’s dagger.

How did the artist get up in the air?

Too late for Richard Wagner, too early for Led Zeppelin, Hughes’ dream of painting album covers was never realized. His style was unsuited to “Bill Bailey Won’t You Please Come Home” and “Way Down Yonder In the Cornfield.”

This painting can be found in London’s National Gallery, in the Hall of Van Art.

Anything to keep from having to give them their pizza for free.

Riding bareback is uncomfortable, but it would be worse if she was male.

“Dream Idyll (A Valkyrie),” 1902

I ask you: if it were YOU on a Pegasus at 2,000 feet altitude, would you be dumb enough to sit sidesaddle?

don’t you know anything? you don’t ride side saddle on a Pegasus.

Dream Idyll (A Valkyrie): 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Edward Robert Hughes" Wikimedia 

(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 Idyll, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this painting. 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3277 (February 27, 2024) 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 pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 2 works by him have been used here, the January 14, 2016, strip being the prior.

I found an interesting essay, but trying to post the link here doesn’t work. Is there aa work-around?

Fliers tend to look for there house when they go overhead. She is no different.

It’s a test run for WW1…

Without radar no Briton espies her,

this Valkyrie sans helmet or visor.

As her steed drops BMs

from St. Pauls to the Thames

she reports the results to the Kaiser!

It’s hard to get a good view when you sit right behind the wing.

For tomorrow:“Maurice always likes to knock back a few before he picks up the kid from daycare..”

In between leading pre-dawn attacks/

On British troops (called “lobster backs”)/

He is known to imbibe/

What the barkeeps prescribe./

He claims that it helps him relax..

Wow! I cannot possibly imagine a nude riding side saddle, without a saddle. The side saddle has special proturberances to keep one from falling off.

My caption: “If you don’t let go of my wing, we’re going to fall.”

Sol, I see you’re hard at work already. I’m hitting the hay. ; )

If you Google the phrase “her golden tresses let loose in the wind” you’ll see an essay on this painting right at the top of the list. Recommended reading. It’s the one on Wordpress.