That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for August 04, 2017

The tragedy of a missed carriage!

117 years? But my flight is in 19 years!

At least they had a smart phone to know that.

OK, we can have dessert tonight, now go back inside and unpack

And here’s another quid for letting my son watch us last night.

It’s always difficult when the first one has to be sent off into service.

“Don’t disturb your father while he’s engaged in Pokemon-go.”

I’m giving you 53 pounds for the kid and not a one shilling more.

4 URLs (copy each as one line):

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edmund_Blair_Leighton_-_Waiting_for_the_coach.jpg

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

http://www.artrenewal.org/pages/artist.php?artistid=844

has info about this artist. So far, 31 works by him have been used here.

http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2016/12/22?comments=visible

has the last prior work. This is a repeat of an earlier strip. I posted more about the painting when the strip was first published

http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2015/01/09?comments=visible

which sadly, though my comment text is there with the line breaks removed, its 16 hyperlinks remain inactive. &?@#!#%&!

Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s A PRICELESS CLASSIC (2015) (August 3, 2017) blog entry (was MASTERPIECE #1124), accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment; so, I won’t point to it here.

“You ARE going to school, even if we have to take you there ourselves!”

I know you’ve deceived me, now here’s a surprise.

I know that you have ‘cause there’s magic in my eyes.

I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles… Oh yeah…

Beginning to realize that their dream of leaving the hustle and bustle of the city behind, and starting a nice little florist business out in country, just might not be profitable after all.

Oh, wait… when he said he had a horseless carriage…