That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for March 13, 2024

She went looking for a zucchini, but this was all she could find.

/// In a pumpkin patch, Lucy van Pelt,

all grown up now, barefooted and svelte,

seeks her young brother Linus,

(who quotes Thomas Aquinas).

On “The Great Pumpkin,” he’s too long dwelt.

Beatrice was later disappointed that her gourd didn’t taste anything like pumpkin spice.

Where are the mice?

I’m looking for a little round headed kid. This is his pumpkin surprise. One gorgeous fruit and ME!

It’s obstreperous, orange, and vile/

and it’s infinitely infantile./

She’s condemned to transport it/

(They won’t let her abort it !)/

Though it certainly cramps her style.

She’s a simple Sicilian Mama/

Who dislikes dissension and drama/

She likes “Uncle Toms Cabin”/

And tunes by Scriabin/

And romps with the Dalai Lama..///

She despises the painter Zonaro/

She was told “he’s a real straight arrow !“/

Well, perhaps he is straight/

But this pumpkin has WEIGHT:/

Could he not paint a simple wheelbarrow?

“You didn’t ‘pay’ for that did you?”

Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater … so, this is the wife he couldn’t keep her !?!

Mary the Contrarian had a Freudian dream full of flower and vegetable symbolism following her romantic encounter with Jack-O’Lantern. He had led her down the primrose path, actually lined with hollyhocks. The discarded corn husk on the ground was obvious, as were her being barefoot, carrying a pumpkin.

Pumpkin and Spice in the same painting – I like it!

She was wanting big melons, but this was all she could find.

“Why can’t my boyfriend be like other guys and just bring me flowers?”

Let me show you how large my vagine is.

I don’t think the slipper will fit those feet !

“It was one heck of a garden party!”

Poor Cinderella……..poof, and that was it!!

I’ll leave no smart aleck comment today — just a compliment to this lovely young woman from my great grandmother’s time.

Mrs. Horsemen leaving Sleepy Hollow. She told him if he did that one more time – she’d have his head.

Good one….

“Now I just need to find another one the same size and I’ll have no problem landing a date this weekend.”

She went out in her night-slip, because it’s going to take all day to turn that into pumpkin bread.

https://www.gocomics.Com/the-wandering-melon/2024/03/12

Returning her coach well after midnight? So they’ll have to charge her for the extra day!

To get her boyfriend to marry her, she’s going to slip that under her dress and fake being pregnant.

Nice melons. Er, I mean nice melon.

Zonaro achieved a new level of Sicilian sexual symbolism with this painting. ( At least that’s what his model thought… )

Young Girl Carrying a Pumpkin: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Pumpkins in paintings" 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 Zonaro, and click its link for info and links that point to more info (perhaps best viewed using the Google Chrome browser, which can automatically translate most webpages if necessary) about this large painting. 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3286 (March 13, 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 the info about this artist I used to point to here. Only work by him used here so far.

Gourdgeous

Interesting walk of shame

“Young Girl Carrying a Pumpkin,” 1889

Becky had decided drastic action was necessary if she was ever going to win a wet t-shirt contest!

he said yes to marry me, now i don’t have to wear this pumpkin.

Oh – you wanted a sweet cherry pie? I have one of those too.

she’s got the pumpkin. now she just needs to find the spice…

For Thursday:

The artist saw fit to portray/

Philomena back in her hay day/

She was blithe, she was gay/

But it’s painful to say/

That she no longer looks that way..///

The horse, on the other hand/

Finds itself in constant demand/

For I’ve recently read/

That he plays Mister Ed/

In a place they call “TVland”..