Nature walks are becoming the new “flapjack dinner” post-adventure Mark Trail ritual. There is some merit in that, insofar as it promotes a more healthy lifestyle than wolfing down flattened pieces of fried dough smothered in liquid sugar and butter. Not that a plate of hotcakes and bacon isn’t a wonderful breakfast from time to time. Yum Yum!

Mark and Cherry’s nature walks might even encourage readers to get off their duffs and enjoy the diversity of lifeforms, the smells of flowers and leaves, and simple pleasures of a walk in the woods or even a local park. So, do you feel adventurous yet?

I’m not going to predict the rest of the week, but …  oh well, we can at least assume this week will consist of Mark and Cherry hanging out with each other until one or both of them gets called on by their bosses. Or their relatives. Or something happens.  I just hope we don’t see another bear this week.

Art Dept. It’s already well into Fall down in Lost Forest, though I think Jules Rivera is a bit premature. Easy mistake to make, living in southern California. That landscape sure looks to be one of the scruffiest areas in Lost Forest! I can’t say I appreciate the 2D interpretation of vegetation we see here in panel 1, as if the trees were cut out of construction paper and pasted onto the panel. The landscape in panel 3 is almost surreal, or rather, a heavy-handed attempt to create a George Herriman-style landscape, as if Krazy Kat lived in the American southeast, rather than the southwest. I might be looking at this with a too historical eye.