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The Week in Review and the Sunday Nature Chat

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Back at Peach and Olive’s cabin, Cherry was helping them prepare “Upcycle” clothing while Peach was working on a promo video. There is still dissension in the ranks about working with Holly Folly. When Cherry found out that Holly was hooked up with Cricket Bro, she got visibly concerned. But then Holly emailed Peach with an offer to buy her clothing line for a big price. Cherry and Olive noted Holly’s connection to “fast fashion” and its ecological damage as a reason to turn the offer down. Peach was all but ignoring them, because she wants to succeed, is enamored by Holly’s good fortune, and wants a bit of that good fortune for herself. It looks like this could be a real ethical conflict for them to work out, if Rivera doesn’t turn it into just another farce.

The surf must have been pretty good when Rivera knocked out this reheated potato. I think I’m on the right track, based on the unimaginative and roughly drawn title panel. Mark already made a big deal about the land bridge at the start of his Happy Hog Hunting Honeys story. Yeah, land bridges are helpful and good, but they are not Edward Hick’s Peaceable Kingdom, either.

Shucks! Pay no attention to me; I’m just nerding out here.  It’s really fine for Rivera to do some promo work for land bridges. They have a good purpose. But as this land bridge was somewhat covered earlier, Rivera could have spent this time on how one gets a land bridge designed, approved, and paid for. You know, like if you want to get one for your community or region. Another reason for my generally slack opinion today is based on Mark’s face in panel 2, which looks like it was slapped together with some kind of online interactive Mr. Potato Head program. But guess what? I threw out that “Mr. Potato Head” line as an off-the-cuff snark. But then I thought, “Is there really such a site?” Well, of course there is! Silly me. There are several, and they are not as customizable or fun as I had hoped.

Mark visits the first mixed-use wildlife crossing built in the United States.

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Rivera is having a little joke today. Unique Texas critter? No, she doesn’t mean Mark’s rental car parked on the grass (looks like a late-model Prius, sure to impress Texans) . She doesn’t mean the armadillo, though that is what we are supposed to assume. It’s not unique to Texas, either. HahHahHah! The correct answer is the land bridge, though I’ve never heard of a bridge referred to as a critter. And again, the only thing unique is that it is named “The Robert L.B. Tobin Land Bridge.” I’m sure we’ll learn more about it.

Looks like Rivera is, indeed, letting Mark have his tourist side trip before reporting for work later this week.

Art Dept. The juxtaposition of armadillo, Mark, and his car appear out of whack, due to the vague perspective that makes the armadillo look like it’s just five feet away from Mark. And it certainly is not the South American giant armadillo (Priodontes maximus), which averages around 3 feet, excluding a 20 inch tail.

The other artistic nit I’m picking is that the land bridge is not over a body of water, as Panel 1 suggests, but over the popular Wurzbach Parkway, which is why it’s a land bridge, of course! Now, even if we omit the blue coloring, we are left with an open area that looks nothing like a highway and more like a body of water.