I went for a walk and look what I found
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (339973)
Rockingham, Australia
October 10, 2018 8:42am CST
I’m not all that keen on any sort of exercise although I am well aware of the benefits of even just walking. When my neighbour rang to see if I’d like to go for a walk I didn’t have the heart to say no so off we went.
About 20 metres from my back door we went through the gate into the bush and followed an old road. Photos don’t do justice to the colour that is out there at the moment. There are a LOT of wildflowers. We even saw an enamel orchid, so-called because of the shiny enamel-like surface of the petals.
Anyway I was so impressed I went back again today with my camera and I’ve made a little collage to show you the best of what I saw. Across the top from left to right is a cowslip orchid, a fringed lily (the petals are fringed) and a donkey orchid. You might notice the big ears of the last.
In the middle left to right is a spider orchid (big thrill), then a Swan River myrtle and the enamel orchid and finally on the bottom row left to right a banksia which grows and flowers at ground level, a flower I don’t know and some interesting fungi.
Maybe I’ll need to go for more walks.
PS: If you click on the photo hopefully it will appear in a larger format.
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32 responses
@JohnRoberts (109846)
• Los Angeles, California
10 Oct 18
@JudyEv I have never seen that before.
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@JudyEv (339973)
• Rockingham, Australia
11 Oct 18
@Tampa_girl7 I really meant if I just stood back and took a photo of a patch of ground it wouldn't as colourful in the photo as it does to me. The colours just seem to fade into the background a bit.
@wolfgirl569 (106271)
• Marion, Ohio
10 Oct 18
Lovely. Walking in the right areas is easy to do.
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@ilocosboy (45156)
• Philippines
11 Oct 18
Hey they are so beautiful.
Now it give idea to do the same.
Two afternoons me and my two youngest children are doing running/little bit of walking and the season of rice plants and bushes are also good to shoot.
Why not, isn't it?
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@JudyEv (339973)
• Rockingham, Australia
13 Oct 18
I am getting as bad as my husband and tend to take my camera with me wherever I go.
@JudyEv (339973)
• Rockingham, Australia
13 Oct 18
@ilocosboy You never know what you will see that you'd like to take a photo of.
@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
10 Oct 18
great range of flowers to discover on one walk
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@JudyEv (339973)
• Rockingham, Australia
11 Oct 18
That's true and that's barely half of them. There were a heap of different yellow ones and blue ones. They seem to go in batches. The yellow often bloom early in the season followed by the blues than the pinks. It's not that distinct of course.
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@JudyEv (339973)
• Rockingham, Australia
11 Oct 18
I'm almost to go again. Hopefully the feeling will wear off. 
@JohnRoberts (109846)
• Los Angeles, California
10 Oct 18
You have such a wide variety of flora and fauna down under.
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@simplfred (20641)
• Philippines
10 Oct 18
This are all an amazing photo. Lovely.
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@JudyEv (339973)
• Rockingham, Australia
10 Oct 18
I was surprised how colourful it was out there. There are lots of yellow and blue flowers at the moment.
@shaggin (72131)
• United States
10 Oct 18
I love getting outside for walks but I don't not care to exercise in other ways. I love the beauty in nature so I hope you go for more walks to share photos with us! Looks like the bottom right hand corner photo is of chicken of the woods.
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@JudyEv (339973)
• Rockingham, Australia
11 Oct 18
Chicken of the woods - is that the name you give this fungi? Someone else gave it a name but I can't find the comment at the moment which seems a bit strange. I just found it on another post where I put a photo of fungi. It's called glossy ganoderma apparently.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
16 Oct 18
Those are lovely to look at thank you for putting them all there so we can see them and know about them as well.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
17 Oct 18
@JudyEv
Yes it does Sweet Alyssum is one of them.
I have put a photo there of one with the butterfly included that just happened to be there when I was taking the photo.
They grow in abundance here.
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@JudyEv (339973)
• Rockingham, Australia
17 Oct 18
@lovinangelsinstead21 Wow, I wouldn't have put sweet alyssum down as growing wild. And look at the veins on the wing of the butterfly. That is really something. You could copy the photo then crop it to just show the butterfly and do a post on it. I'm sure others would be interested too.
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@arunima25 (87806)
• Bangalore, India
11 Oct 18
Your walk was a real treat. It is a beautiful collage.
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@JudyEv (339973)
• Rockingham, Australia
12 Oct 18
@arunima25 This one is called the wreath flower but it doesn't grow near us. Isn't it well named?
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