That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for November 20, 2024

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    Say What Now‽ Premium Member 3 months ago

    Sarah; the tree whisperer

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    rmremail  3 months ago

    Treehugger, about to get hot & heavy with her tree

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    Solstice*1947  3 months ago

    /// Walter named this tree The Talking Oak,

    claiming that of Olivia it spoke.

    Where her carved name defaced

    its rough bark she embraced

    it, and wondered how Walter’s mind broke.

    /// Alfred Tennyson wrote a long verse

    on this subject, (it should have been terse).

    Walter hears the oak speaking

    of the girl he’s been seeking.

    I’d critique it, but I’ve written worse.

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    rmremail  3 months ago

    Daphne? Are you in there?

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    Bilan  3 months ago

    Sarah is definitely the champion of Hide-and-Seek. Everybody else is inside the house … 2 miles away.

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    Ubintold  3 months ago

    And the artist was named after his Maw.

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    crochetkid24 Premium Member 3 months ago

    Precursor to Rose and her “let it be” tree.

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    Jayalexander  3 months ago

    Moody River is just on the other side, I’ll just leave a quick note. for turnip brain.

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    Sephten  3 months ago

    She’s not an ancestor of Rose Gumbo by any chance?

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    jel354  3 months ago

    The tree barked back enthusiasm.

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    Call me Ishmael  3 months ago

    “We’ve got to stop meeting like this/

    Despite the arboreal bliss/

    Said the lass to the tree./

    Our love cannot be !

    My husband knows something’s amiss!”///

    Said the tree,” I believe you are right/

    And I quite sympathize with your plight:/

    Those scratches are nasty-/

    you may need dermoplasty /

    for my bark is much worse than my bite..”

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    Egrayjames  3 months ago

    “Oh Tree, please tell me, does this dress make my a ss look big?”

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    jdculhane46  3 months ago

    I can hear you back there. Are you ok? I told you that burrito looked a little suspect.

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    chaosed2  3 months ago

    Charlotte swore that when she put her ear to the tree she could hear the sound of the forest….her friends didn’t have the heart to explain the truth to her.

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    Gameguy49 Premium Member 3 months ago

    Does the tree dye its leaves? They are going to Fall off soon anyway.

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    mac04416  3 months ago

    Of course I love you. I’ll love you even more when your furniture and fire wood.

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    mac04416  3 months ago

    Well, that woodpecker was right. you can hear the bugs in there.

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    fritzoid Premium Member 3 months ago

    If it wasn’t a hardwood before, it is now.

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    fritzoid Premium Member 3 months ago

    “She loves me, she loves my knot.”

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    wincoach Premium Member 3 months ago

    Much like a seashell and hearing the ocean, if you put your ear to a tree, you can hear the bugs getting in your ears.

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    aerotica69  3 months ago

    Before the tree huggers, there were the tree whisperers.

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    prrdh  3 months ago

    “I want to have your acorns.”

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    PraiseofFolly  3 months ago

    Olivia Keebler had a taste for cookies

    And contrary to the poem by Tennyson

    The Talking Oak spoke from within

    Due to the elves who were therein denizen

    .

    The old oak tree on her father’s estate

    Was hollow and housed an elfin bakery

    All else was mere fantastic imagery

    Or fancy Victorian poetic fakery

    .

    The elves until then had kept to themselves

    Their baked goods for local consumption

    That their products could be sold outside their wold

    Seemed the height of false presumption

    .

    Olivia’s onetime lover Walter had carved

    Her name in the bark to unknowingly deface

    The tree that the elves had long called home

    And considered such mark a disgrace

    .

    Unfortunate for them the lease for the oak

    In which they had lived ‘til now rent-free

    Was included in the Keebler estate

    Along with any ordinary tree

    .

    A deal was therefore made by which the elves

    Would begin a commercial enterprise

    To offer baked goods internationally

    And share the profits in lieu of rent seemed wise

    .

    Tennyson in turn agreed to give the project gloss

    His poet laureate status suffered no great averse

    By his tastefully accepting small royalties

    From each cookie box containing samples of his verse

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    fritzoid Premium Member 3 months ago

    Weeks later, when she discovered the first open sore, she learned why it was called “The Giving Tree.” She was going to have to make some phone calls.

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    Calvins Brother  3 months ago

    “You’re so big and hard! You make my sap run.”

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    Slowly, he turned...  3 months ago

    She wanted to burst out in song but couldn’t think of any “tree” showtunes…

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    mabrndt Premium Member 3 months ago

    The Talking Oak: 

    Paste (including the quote marks) 

    "Category:William Maw Egley" Wikimedia 

    (syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and Brave 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 Talkingoak, and click its link for info and links that point to more info (perhaps best viewed using the Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox browsers, which can automatically translate most webpages if necessary) about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting. File history shows the cropped, strip coloration image. 

    Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3414 (November 20, 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. So far, first work by him used here.

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    Impkins  Premium Member 3 months ago

    Euell Gibbons daughter. :)

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    mshaw Premium Member 3 months ago

    “The Talking Oak”

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    Another Take  3 months ago

    NO “WOOD” JOKES!

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    mokspr Premium Member 3 months ago

    Next season on "The Legend of Vox Machina "…

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    d1234dick Premium Member 3 months ago

    blind sera likes rough men, but this is too rough she thought.

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    6turtle9  3 months ago

    Not being very bright, she misunderstood what a family tree was, and she spent day and night praying to the tree to give her a baby.

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    fritzoid Premium Member 3 months ago

    “How to Recognize Different Types of Trees from Quite Close Indeed: #1, The Oak. The Oak. The Oak.”

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    fritzoid Premium Member 3 months ago

    “Darling, I’m SO sorry! I should have known that offering to show you my beaver would frighten you!”

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    MuddyUSA  Premium Member 3 months ago

    Horace come out come out wherever you are…I only have a half hour lunch…….

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    fritzoid Premium Member 3 months ago

    “I love yew so much. What? I’m certain I said ‘you!’ Don’t be such an ash.”

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    Running Buffalo Premium Member 3 months ago

    If you sincerely apologize, I will use another spell to get you out of the tree.

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    fritzoid Premium Member 3 months ago

    “Baby girl, don’t listen to what the Lorax says. He doesn’t speak for me.”

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    fritzoid Premium Member 3 months ago

    “When you can’t see the forest because you’re seeing one tree exclusively.”

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    fritzoid Premium Member 3 months ago

    OK, I took off my hat. Is it REALLY too much to ask that you wear a condom? I seriously don’t want to deal with splinters.

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