We have more agisted girls on “mommy watch” right now, and yesterday one of them (Mahara, a big black girl) dropped her cria- and adorable black Suri boy. She was very lucky with the weather, as it was still, sunny and warm- quite unusual for mid-June! But a check of the forecast showed rain coming, with predicted cold southerlies and rain overnight, so Mahara, her cria, and Angela’s two other girs all got to spend the night in the shed.

Just before going to bed I popped out to check them, and walked into a spooky world. Thick fog had set in, it was perfectly still, and a near-full moon shown directly overhead. The whole world was suffused with a pale blue light. The fog muffled all sound, except for occasional eirie and unusual bird calls in the darkness. Tam and I walked up into Home paddock to visit our girls. You could barely see the big high voltage tower on the other side of the paddock, and weirdly it was harder to see if you looked directly at it, it came through more clearly out of the corner of the eye. Pretty creepy.

It was the sort of night where you expect werewolves, or shambling zombies, or for all the alpaca to turn around with red glowing eyes. It’s too bad that film cameras could not capture the effect, because words really fail to describe it.