Six wallabies and a cat

This photo was taken by Eric around 6AM on his walk around Carlyle Gardens. He saw lots of other wallabies, but this cluster (featuring a cat as well) was particularly striking. The quality of the photo isn't great, because it was taken with an iPhone (which doesn't handle low light levels nearly as well as our other cameras) and I had to lighten it quite a bit in GIMP to make the wallabies even slightly visible.

And then there was the little wallaby who wanted to read the newspaper, but was having difficulty getting the plastic wrap off...

Wallabies

For the first time, I saw one of the wallaby joeys out of the pouch this morning. Cute, like most young animals. Mom wallaby seemed most unenthusastic about letting it back into the pouch. Both hopped rapidly away into the fog.

Wallabies and writing

A mob of at least 7 wallabies (not counting the joeys still in pouch) are munching their way through the lush new grass near our house. We go out occasionally and shout "Eat weeds! Eat weeds!" but they don't seem to be paying attention.

Working on second draft of my book on self-publishing using OpenOffice.org Writer. Have done most of the content changes suggested by reviewers; now working on formatting. Still need to create a few more examples, with illustrations.