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The Week in Review and the Sunday Nature Chat

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Well, if you’ve followed any of my posts this week, you may as well just skip to the Sunday strip, below. Otherwise, here goes:

Mark and Cherry, after driving to the Lost Forest Jailhouse and haranguing Rick the Bipolar Poacher and ex-beau of Cherry’s sister, Peach, decided to go on another one of their cherished nature walks. 

This one lasted most of the week (in our time, not theirs). Each day favored a different animal vignette for them to gush over, and I suppose we were invited to gush, as well.  The problem was that none of the depictions seemed especially gushable to me. Your mileage may vary, as they say. As Mark relished the idea of getting away from technology for a while, he faced the predictable consequences of a charging phone flush with left calls to answer on their return to the cabin. And wasn’t Mark surprised! Were you?

One of the featured nature walk creatures was this stag beetle. So we get some of the beetle’s lifestyle and personal likes. On the other hand … 

I thought that Rivera had realized the importance of really focusing on the creature-of-the-week by minimizing the appearance of Mark and his pointless puns, as she did last week. Well, call me Mr. Naive. Go ahead; I deserve it! Once again, it’s hard to distinguish what is important here, as the first thing I see is Mark commenting in almost every panel. I mean, honestly, Jules! Aren’t the narration boxes enough!?

Mark and Cherry manage to avoid the bear, only to fall under the notice of a giant stag beetle!

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Ever wonder why Cherry and Mark always wear backpacks on their nature walks? I do! It’s not as if they are going on a 3-day mountain hike! Maybe they are just prudent? I suppose they might carry snacks, water, raincoat, compass, extra socks, perhaps a blanket, and some lotion … uh, suntan lotion, of course.

Anyway, it’s only Tuesday, people. This could be a lonnng walk!

Nature Dept. I’m curious about panel 3. Not the beetle, but the rock with a tree growing atop. I’ve seen this before on some hikes I’ve taken with my wife. Here is a photo of one such occurrence. The tree is a member of what are known as Lithophytes, flora that grow on and/or in the rock. They subsist on sunlight, rain, and minerals extracted from the rock. I don’t really know the botany, so maybe Mark will tell us about it this coming Sunday.