That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for May 31, 2024

Praying to the gods for some clothes.

/// Ditlev Blunck did “The Ages of Man”

for the Danish King after a ban

which expelled him. The truth

is this painting, called “Youth,”

showed he’s too much of young men a fan.

Wait a minute; is that a bare shoulder I see on that woman? Shame!

Carla, playing air-harp

A Viking, he’s not.

The figurehead on the front of Philomena’s boat seemed so real.

Ferry service to the nudist colony.

“I’m prepared to catch the raining bounty! I may have misunderstood the translation, however”.

“Just admit that you don’t know what you’re doing.”

Three nudes and a prude.

Stay out of the water, unless you want to find out why this lake is called “Itchee Gumee”.

“Speaking of jackets, who takes a kid that age sailing without a life jacket? What kind of parents are you?!”

Well, she told me “the boat is small and to save space you’ll have to leave your clothes on shore”

Dear, please stop. You’re embarrassing your oldest son.

The strangest of sights I have seen/

Was the crew of the “African Queen “/

The lad trimming the sail/

Was remarkably pale/

And failing to wear a Sunscreen…///

The woman who sat in the stern/

Whose task was the tiller to turn/

Wore layer upon layer/

So she hasn’t a care:/

She’s extremely unlikely to burn..

I’m sailing in the nude / Just sailing in the nude / All those guys who are staring / Are just being rude / I took off my clothes / As everyone knows / I like to go sailing in the nude / Just sailing in the nude!

Guess which of the three is thinking: “Good Lord, won’t he ever shut up!”

“Typical !” grumbles Frieda to herself. " I get stuck navigating this d@mn dingy while little Lars plays flower child, Leif airs his pits, and Lens hasn’t got off his d@mn cell phone since we started!! "

“What light through yonder window breaks.”

“I’m over here, stupid!”

Hmm… ’Appears to be a Pride Parade float — (about to come under investigation for an underage participant)…

The rainbow done got itself ALL tied up in knots!

He: But I did bring a towel for when I come out of the water…….

She said it would be sublime / to sail in a more tropic clime. / To cruise with no clothes / and of us no one knows / we can bathe and get rid of the grime. / But I fear she is up to her tricks / to say sailing and clothes do not mix. / She said it’d be merry / to sail on a ferry / but we’re on the River Styx!

Youth. From the series: The Four Ages of Man: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:1840s paintings from Denmark" 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 Youth, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this large painting, including the museum’s Description. 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3330 (May 31, 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 and reply there pointing to the info about this artist I used to point to here. Only work by him used here so far.

Hermione stated that she liked having cloths on at least on the i’ll be naked as everyone else.

Richard had a totally different idea about riparian entertainments than Hyacinth did.

Four people in a two-person boat with a very low waterline. Hope they can all swim.

Boys are so gullible. I wonder how long it will take him to figure out that a sunburn doesn’t put hair on your chest.

Yea, for once the man is nude instead of the woman!