What a photo...

As I have mentioned over the years, there's a gap below a balcony at our house that possums from time to time use as a nest during the day, and it's particularly charming when it's occupied by a mother and young offspring.  Hence, I can sometimes be sitting on the sofa watching TV, look up out the window and see a furry tail, and know that we have a lodger.

Or, as has been happening recently, I might hear a plop and look out to see a young possum has fallen off the perch, so to speak, and is on the ground; sometimes clawing at the glass window, sometimes in the nearby bush.  When the baby looked too little, we went out and picked up it and put it back up with its mother, which tended to gaze down from above but not often make a move to recover said offspring.  (I suspect they have a big fear factor about being in the open in daylight.).   And even if no one is sitting near that window when the fall happens, our dog has a few times alerted us (by going nuts at clawing and barking at the glass to try together to the furry thing that probably resembles a rat to her part Jack Russell brain) that the baby possum is on the ground again.

Which is all by preamble to posting this recent photo, taken by my daughter, of the young possum in the bush, before it's Mum actually did come down and carry it back up.  (It is, in fact, now big enough to scramble up the bricks itself.)

What a pretty creature, hey?

My daughter sent it to friends, and apparently some said "ooh it's  so clear it looks likes AI", which annoyed her.  "AI is making taking a good photo pointless, if people can't tell if it's real anyway" she grumbled.

So yeah, I guess a clumsy possum has helped, in a very small way, to encourage the "anti AI slop" views of at least two humans. 

I hope this is an adequate palate cleanser to the previous post.