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lamortefille wrote:
I love him….if star doesn’t want him, I’ll take him. Don’t hit me star! 😉 😆
Back!!! Back, I say!!! Hands off my wolf!!!! 😆
GB, he’s fantastic!!!! I love your style, you know that!!! The red accents are just perfect!!! How do you paint such pretty wings!!! They always amaze me!! I can’t wait to get my grubby little hands on him!!!! 😀
WOW I love those wings!!!
Maybe I will have to visit starbreeze… and then feign innocence when that wolf goes “mysteriously” missing…
If I was going to do it for real I probably shouldn’t have posted it on here, huh?
Thank you, starbreeze. I’m glad – and relieved – you like him. You’ve had to wait long enough, that’s for sure. I’ll try to get him shipped to you tomorrow morning.
Star suggested that I tell y’all where Strabo’s name came from: Wikipedia. Here’s the article:
Strabo was born in a wealthy family from Amaseia in Pontus (modern Amasya Turkey),[2] which had recently become part of the Roman Empire.[3] His mother was Georgian. He studied under various geographers and philosophers; first in Nysa, later in Rome. He was philosophically a Stoic and politically a proponent of Roman imperialism. Later he made extensive travels to Egypt and Kush, among others. It is not known when his Geography was written, though comments within the work itself place the finished version within the reign of Emperor Tiberius. Some place its first drafts around AD 7, others around 18. Last dateable mention is given to the death in 23 of Juba II, king of Maurousia (Mauretania), who is said to have died “just recently.”[4] On the presumption that “recently” means within a year, Strabo stopped writing that year or the next (24 AD), perhaps because of his death.
Strabo’s History is nearly completely lost. Although Strabo quotes it himself, and other classical authors mention that it existed, the only surviving document is a fragment of papyrus now in possession of the University of Milan (renumbered [Papyrus] 46).
Several different dates have been proposed for Strabo’s death, but most of them place it shortly after 23.
Strabo is mostly famous for his 17-volume work Geographica, which presented a descriptive history of people and places from different regions of the world known to his era. It is an important source of information on the ancient world, especially when information is corroborated by other sources.
I think my little wolf has some very big shoes to fill!!! Do you suppose since he traveled from California to Switzerland and now from Switzerland to Florida, he’s picked up enough geography to be a geographer??? 😆
Very nicely done GB! 😀 You really did a great job on the wings.
You and I have something in common when doing commissions for star… we both take a while! 😳 😆I’m glad you look at it that way! 😆
She will be done this weekend. Congrats on the awesome wolf from GB though! 😀Yes, I was just thinking that! Their colors are pretty similar. Well, will be once I finish the one I’m doing.
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