
Concrete stepping-stone in local park.
An inquisitive old fart with a camera

Concrete stepping-stone in local park.

A nail in a wooden stepping-stone in the local park.


Artichoke flowers. I would rather have seen artichokes on sale, but since I’d never seen an artichoke flower before, this was a sort of compensation.

Decadent! Delicious! And in the toaster oven for lunch the next day 😉

Carrying a bag of trash to the bin on the corner, I stopped to pick up some litter on the way, including this.
No apparent meaning, and grammatically incorrect. In two languages.

Buying lumber in Uruguay: first thing you have to do is square it, because apparently those saws that are running all day long are incapable of being set to cut right angles.

At a beach entrance in Marindia, you can find one of the ubiquitous mud Hornero nests. Hornero means baker, and they are so named because their nests look like traditional mud ovens.

You know, like this. (Photo source)

But if some humans want to help and provide a ready-made solar-panel roof, well, so much the better.

The entrance to the nest faces the beach (ESE). I was told once that the birds build their nests with the opening facing east for the morning sun, but I have seen them facing several directions. The same person told me that was because they have become disoriented since the advent of cell towers.

Almost looks like someone scribbled on the sky.

Novermber 29, 2020. Atlántida, Uruguay