That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for February 10, 2025

/// This field’s foliage is not green and lush.

They dispose of it by Burning Brush.

unlike Joan’s unchecked yearning

for her handsome (but newly wed) crush.

/// Joan kneels down and, with care, lights the fire.

She’s consumed by enkindled desire.

if it weren’t for her.”

Joan pretends it’s his wife’s funeral pyre.

“ Come on baby, light my fire” nope. Too obvious. “Smoke gets in your eyes”. Nope, too obvious. What to do? What to do?

Trump voters burning down “the system”. Today he closed the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau. Seems it was too successful at protecting consumers.

… and, “this is how you learn to blow smoke up someone’s butt”

Are you certain that is enough brush?

Yes. And stop worrying – nobody will find grand pa out here.

Clearly, somebody didn’t get the ‘no burn’ advisory.

“And before you know it we’ll have roasted gophers for dinner.”

November 5th in the UK clashes with a visit from the current US president.

Brits await their guy…

Peasant women were Dan Knight’s speci-ality

His paintings were accepted as reality

Where in his paintings were the men?

How came about the pictured children?

Is Themyscira this Amazon locality?

Geeze, I don’t feel any different. Some hippie guy said if I inhaled the smoke from burning weed, I’d get high. What a liar.

Burning Brush: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Paintings by Daniel Ridgway Knight" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ecosia, and Brave search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Wikimedia Category: found and once there find the text string Brush, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this large painting, including a Description.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3458 (February 10, 2025) 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 .jpg from the URL). I have added a comment there pointing to the blog entry with my comment pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 9 works by this artist have been used here, the March 17, 2023, strip bring the prior.

I’m stumping on this one. Why would farmers want to start a brush fire in 1884?

If this doesn’t flush Reginald out, I’ll never get a date for the Sadie Hawkins Dance.

In this practice run, we want to learn how to make the fire good and smoky but not too hot, this makes for a good show, and the witch burns slower.

California branch of the FBI asking for information leading to identity of what it refers to as “People of Interest”.

Cops coming! Get rid of the weed!

Dry run for Joan of Arc’s exit.

For Tuesday:

The lady we’re seeing here/

Resembles a pole-axed steer;/

She had hoped to recline, /

but the painter said “nein!”/

With a sharp blow behind the ear..