That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for April 14, 2017

The clean coal energy everybody is talking about.

otherwise known as “black jelly beans”

Umm, girls… Not everything the bunny drops is an Easter egg.

Can’t you just feel the excrement…?

In my neighborhood it’s Turkey droppings. But we thin the flock around Thanksgiving so there’s less of a mess.

Olive harvest. They beat the crap out of the trees, and then you have to pick it up.

The only pig around here was Alfie, so I had to look for truffles myself.

It’s 3 o’clock time to gather olives for the 5 o’clock happy hour martinis

La Thangue was a painter of rural landscape and portraits of country people. He was involved in the politics of the art world, trying to get the powers that were to loosen up and give more recognition to styles of work beyond rigid classicism. Unfortunately, they didn’t listen. This particulr painting is pretty typical—lush color, very painterly, somewhat idealized.

There’s a good long posting about him with a number of his paintings at https://mydailyartdisplay.wordpress.com/2015/07/21/henry-herbert-la-thangue-the-pictorial-documenter-of-rural-life/.

The wikipedia article on him could use some work, but it’s a start.

Anybody here who puns on “Thangue”, “thang” and “thong” deserves public scorn of a high degree of intensity.

Here we go gathering nuts in May.

Easter Egg roll on the White House lawn this year.

3 URLs (copy each as one line):

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Herbert_La_Thangue_-_Gathering_Plums.jpg

has info and links that point to info about this painting (best viewed by Google Chrome – can automatically translate pages if necessary).

http://www.wga.hu/bio_m/l/la_thang/biograph.html

has info about this artist. So far, 3 works by him have been used here.

http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2015/05/26?comments=visible

has the prior strip (which, sadly, still has no active hyperlinks &?@#!#%&!).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #1687 (April 13, 2017) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment; so, I won’t point to it here.

“I told you, contact lenses are more trouble than they’re worth.”

…i was busy…

“When he asked if I wanted a date, I should have gotten more details.”

grandma harvest of Marijuana, before hybrids

what a crappy caption…