Tonight I am thinking about the Roman Empire so I thought I would share some images from a Roman road in Turkey. This post was originally written for my Flora and Fauna series and I am rewriting part of it tonight.

I use the picture above in my post A Day in Tarsus which I wrote when I visited there in May 2014.

This is a Roman road near Tarsus. The road dates from a later time period than Paul, but would have possibly followed the same path that he would have taken to go through the Cilician Gates.

There is also a part of a Roman road in Tarsus.

While walking along the ancient Roman road in the coutry I saw a lot of flora and fauna. Here is a combination of both as we see a butterfly on a pretty little flower. I used this picture in Flora and Fauna V – Turkey. This is a post you may want to visit as it has some really nice bee pictures. I think that they are some of the best that I have taken.

Here are some beautiful little red flowers that were growing along the ancient Roman road. I really like the shadow of the third flower. There were quite a few of these little flowers along the road.

I am not sure what type of plant this was, but it was growing through a hole in one of the stones along the road. I can imagine that plants have grown through this hole for centuries.

Here we have a flock of long-haired black goats that were grazing along the road. This area has been famous for black goats for millennia. The wool from this type of goats was often used in tent making. Paul would have been familiar with these goats in his family business.

Have you ever seen dung beetles at work? It was interesting to watch as the beetles were rolling up balls of dung and moving them around. It was nice of the goats to leave them some food 🙂

Steven