ARTS AND MINIATURES: Welcome New Followers

sexta-feira, 19 de fevereiro de 2010

Welcome New Followers

To my New Followers: Debbie - Casiti Mini - Vicky - Lara - Mags Cassidy - Ana Anselmo I send a little sign of the arrival of Spring here in the South. Today we are being presented with a little glimpse of sun.

Detail of the flowers of the Almond Tree, which are abundant by this time at the South of Portugal

And nice birds that came to our veranda:

A sparrow so cute but feeling a little cold I think....

Upupa - Nice bird with a crest, they are also abundant here at the south, I find them so beautiful
and suddenly I remembered that I had a pair of porccelain biscuit crests I bough several years ago in New York - Royal Worcester Porcelain

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synnøve19 de fevereiro de 2010 às 12:41
O how I wish I could fly away from the icy and cold north, to visit this land of spring and beautiful flowers and birds..... sigh!!!!
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Ana20 de fevereiro de 2010 às 05:35
It´s not very far Synnove....and good weather is arriving soon, we hope.
Ana
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Lara22 de fevereiro de 2010 às 00:52
Thank you for this flowery welcome. I hope spring will arrive soon in the Netherlands ;-)
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Debbie25 de fevereiro de 2010 às 05:46
Thank you for the lovely Welcome..
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Welcome to my new Blog

I hope that you will enjoy my new Blog, I intend to organize it in a diferent way of the others, I will mix images of my work regarding miniatures and other forms of art like artistic paint, but I will also include lots of photos , because I have a passion to photograph, although I know very litttle about it, but I have my artistic filling to choose interesting matters. All the photos in this Blog shall be mine.

In which concerns my miniatures all of them are hand painted, and that´s a work that I love to do, enjoy it.

You are also invited to visit my other blog:

http://am-ambientes-em-miniatura.blogs.sapo.pt/

http://am-artes-e-miniaturas.blogs.sapo.pt/

http://am-bonecas-e-companhia.blogs.sapo.pt/

AM

HERCOLANEUM AND POMPEII

Hercolaneum was founded by Hercules according to mythological tradition . In 63A.D. the town was hit by a earthquake which attended all the Campania, and a few years later in 79 A.D. was devasted by the eruption of Vesuvios. When the eruption ended Hercolaneum was covered with a thick layer of mud (at some points over 10 meters deep). Abandoned by its inhabitants this town was never rebuilt.

The same happened to Pompeii, the reconstruction work that followed the earthquake was not yet completed when on August 24th, 79 AD Vesuvius unexpectedly awoke, submerging the countryside with ashes,, cinder and eruptive material, while rivers of lava mixed with mud followed down.

In 20 AD the Volcano was considered extinct by Strabone a geographer, therefore the population was taken by surprise and many of them were killed trying to escape. The eruption of the Volcano was so imense that the top part of the crater collapsed forming the present caldera.

This tragedy that lasted for three long days arrived to us through the letters of the writter Pliny the Younger to Tacitus.
Pompeii remained buried under a layer of ash with more than six meters deep preserving all the evidence of life by that moment, which came mericulously to light more than two centuries ago.