rome 2013

while not exhaustive, these are some highlights from our couple days in rome. some things not photographed were the circus maximus - pretty much just a big hole in the ground now. there's some restoration going on but nothing even close to bringing it back to its state during the good old days of the empire. i've seen models and computer recreations of it. in a word, ridiculous. the grandest entertainment venue ever built. grander than the colosseum. today's so-called stadiums and domed theatre's are chump change in comparison. i think we suffer from a lack of vision in our building these days. or maybe a lack of will. and money. probably all of the above. some day i'll get to posting rome 2012 and kind of round out the collection of my roman photographs. they are much different and together give a pretty broad perspective of all the major things to see.