Last Things

A couple with a donkey walks down the central street of a town.

This is a place we were to visit one morning, to see the priceless antiquities within. But they hadn't caught all the dogs yet, so we couldn't enter. Caught all the dogs? Yeah. This place is patrolled inside at night by perhaps a dozen of these rather virulent dogs. Note the robust appearance of physical strength. Note also the muscular jaws. I suspect that nighttime trespassing is simply not a problem here. Even if it happens, the same trespasser will not do it twice. This man was taking his dog home that morning.

This is what's left of the Roman city of Volubilis. This place was near the western margin of the Roman Empire. The Romans grew crops around here and shipped the harvest off to Rome.