Of course, it gets dark early and light late every year at this time of the year but this December it seems to get to me more than in other years. On some days it doesn’t seem to get light at all. I’ve about had it with this darkness and I’m prepared to dance around a bonfire tonight to appease the gods to coax the sun back.
For Saturday’s Ragtag Daily Prompt I posted a photo of the Roman villa rustica which was found and the foundations excavated near our town about 40 years ago. I realised that I didn’t have many photos of the site so I made the 2 km trip and took some more yesterday afternoon.
This is a view of the small temple at the back of the house. As far as I know it is not known what god or gods were worshipped here but the timeframe (first to third century AD) and artifacts found in the Roman city of Lopodunum (Ladenburg) nearby suggest that it might have been Sol invictus.
So in honour of his longest reign this year:
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Midsummer
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