Kirdiy - Happiness Is Like A Butterfly...

...the more you try to catch it, the more it slips away. But if you give your attention to other things, it will come and quietly sit on your shoulder.

A surprise card from dear Ana, who is also a big Kirdiy fan, and happened to have a double :) Lovely waterfall stamps - hvala Anči! <3

Monasteries In Serbia

Ahh I struggle once more to keep everything up to date...its been the busiest period at work, so when am at work (i.e. at the pc) what i do most is trying to correspond with the Italians..!

I've received so many lovely cards lately that i refuse to miss posting any of them here - one of them is this great postcard showing Serbian monasteries, from Ana of course..! I love monasteries, and i really hope that i can visit an orthodox one some time soon. The one down left is the most famous Serbian monastery called Studenica, dating from the 12th century, and listed on the whs unesco list :) I've seen (online) an aerial view of the whole complex, its looks absolutely stunning! It is situated in central Serbia, 39 km from the town of Kraljevo. Its perhaps most renowned for the frescoes dating from the 13th and 14th centuries.

Hvala Ana, da znaš kako mi dođe da ih sve posjetin! A o markicama da i ne pričan, stvarno su prekrasne :)))

Maxi-Cards - Giants of Patagonia, Serbia

This weekend i was blown away with this brilliant surprise from dear Ana - my thanks run to the heavens and back! heh :)))

Two years ago there was an exhibition in Beograd's Natural History Museum called 'Dinosaurs of Argentina - Giants of Patagonia',  that presented 40 complete skeletons of 15 different dinosaur species, some eggs, nests with youngs, and footprints. These maxi-cards show Gigantosaurus Carolinii and Herrerasaurus Ischigualastensis.

Gigantosaurus Carolinii lived around 97 million years ago during the early Cenomanian stage of the late Cretaceous Period (i wish i knew more about the earth's history...then this would make more sense :S). It is one of the largest known terrestrial carnivores - even slightly larger than the famous Tyrranosaurus! The first remains were found in 1993 in deposits of Patagonia, in southern Argentina. It could grow up to the length of 13m  and weighed probably between 7-13 tons. massive.

First remains of Herrerasaurus Ischigualastensis were found in NW Argentina in 1959 by an andean goatherd Herrera - hence the name! They belong to the late Ladinian Age/Middle Triassic (some 230 million years ago). This carnivore was smaller (3 to 6 meters) but surely just as scary..!

Well one learns something new every day :-D