Summer’s here and once again we will be out and about with the camera. This one we captured last year, but I just did not get round to including it in a post.

Normally such a structure would be either a grain silo, or perhaps a chimney stack; it’s rather tall for a bell tower, and there’s no one living for miles around, anyway. If it were painted white, or here in Uruguay red and white, and out on the point of a rocky headland or a rocky near-coastal island, we’d presume it was a light house.

The absence of paint, a large light, smoke or a bell at the top rules out those suggestions. The metal framed sliding windows at intervals up the wall suggest a structure either designed (?) or adapted for living…. we just don’t know. But if we’re out that way this summer we might just see if we can find someone in the vicinity who doesn’t mind a couple of nosey strangers asking questions……