That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for November 23, 2020

Caroline hoped to avoid getting a summons for wearing such a provocative outfit to the beach.

Woman, abandoned in the wilderness for wearing white after labor day.

This artist’s style makes it very difficult to tell which parts are rock and which parts are seagull crap.

Margo, feeling awkward because she didn’t bother to check what the rocks were wearing.

Britain’s version of the “Little Mermaid” is characteristically more prim and proper than Copenhagen’s.

Margaret’s dress had been solid white before a squadron of dive-bombing gulls had flown over.

jane double-checks the beachwear instruction manual to make sure she’s properly attired…

Of all of the hideous frocks/ that should have remained in their box/ this one that she wore/ for a day at the shore/ is why she’s washed up on the rocks.

“I saw it in the window and I just couldn’t resist it!” (Because our bedroom curtains are just like that dress.)

When there’s no dock at the bay to sit on, use a rock.

She has a secret.

Hey, look what’s washed upon the beach after the storm

“Fried Isabelle on the Rocks” Sonny Sideup 1892

Even at the beach, Wallflower Wanda just didn’t stand out.

It won’t work. The male predators of the same species are way too sharp-eyed. Dim-witted, certainly, but sharp-eyed.

Searching the Ikea catalogue for a comfy folding chair with a rock jabbing her back and a stone half up her crack.

Castaway reading “Desert Island Decameron.”

The Flying Cat Hats were all the rage the summer 92’.

Millicent modeling the lastest beachwear camouflage outfit for wallflowers.

Driftwood…

Elizabeth believed that books required the proper setting for a good read. Though it was a tiring trek, she was currently reading The Old Man And The Sea by the sea. It would be nice to just stay home next to her freshly painted front door during her upcoming read – the screenplay for Behind The Green Door.

Anyone make it through that to the “punchline”? If so, how mad are you that you wasted so much time on it?

I zoomed in on the magazine…..would you believe it’s the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition for 1892?

Minnie Pearl without the price trag.

“I am a rock I am an island” I Am A Rock Simon & Garfunkel

“Jeb, hand me my club, that’s the biggest damn baby Harp seal I have ever seen.”

She read and reread the book but did not get the pointillism.

As she calmly read her book, a fish jumped off a fisherman’s hook.

Tanning was not a big rage back then.

Summer Sunlight (Isles of Shoals): 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Childe_Hassam_-_Summer_Sunlight_(Isles_of_Shoals)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 

has info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/hassam_childe.html 

https://www.wikiart.org/en/childe-hassam 

http://www.all-art.org/history480-7.html 

http://www.sai.msu.su/cjackson/hassam/hassam_bio.htm 

https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/hassam_childe_1859_1935_ 

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/h/hassam/biograph.html 

https://www.pictorem.com/profile/Frederick.Childe.Hassam 

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/457/childe-hassam 

http://www.thefamousartists.com/childe-hassam 

https://www.askart.com/artist/Childe_Frederick_Hassam/7125/Childe_Frederick_Hassam.aspx 

https://prabook.com/web/childe.hassam/1109360 

http://portlandartmuseum.us/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=992;type=701 

http://www.artnet.com/artists/childe-hassam/ 

https://www.sullivangoss.com/artists/childe-hassam-1859-1935 

http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/famous-artists/childe-hassam.htm 

http://hoocher.com/Frederick_Childe_Hassam/Frederick_Childe_Hassam.htm 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, askart.com can be read in full for free on Fridays), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. First work by him used here.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2584 (November 22, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

“If you must know, I’m reading ‘How to Avoid Paparazzi’. I give it one star.”

A study in .. creating a portrait when you’re almost out of paint.

Melinda learned long ago that the best way of getting out of doing the dishes was to blend into the landscape.

When people said Alice had crabs, they weren’t kidding.

minni pearl is waiting on the shore for Mr. right, minni needs to put on her bikini, it helps.

And once she petrifies she’ll blend right in.

Sally reads from her book; A- E- I- O- U- Y did I choose this silly hat? :>)

Marge verifying in the book “How to pick up men” that it states to go to the beach and THEN change into the swimming outfit.

… and to think I’ve been doing it backwards all these years! Well, off with these clothes now.

I would think the hat alone would be sufficient to scare off any predators.