It’s the weekend. It’s weekend walk to op shop at the local church. Walked up there after breakfast under a blue sky. Looking for larger scale glasses for gin - down to one. No luck - got a bag of cars for Ollie and an iron for $8. The one in the house down south died. Spent a busy morning after that - accounts - boring
Did go walking late down to Blackbutt Creek. Walk the whole track easily takes the day over 10k steps. Always orchids in the rainforest section in autumn - first up small nodding greenhood. This one with pollinator - light a bit low for perfect focus - and the bug kept moving away from the camera
Better focus with a bit more light- pterostylis hispidula - small nodding greenhood
Found a cluster of these greenhoods in an uphill spot
Front on photo is a bit harder for focus - sharp greenhood on account of the sharp pointy bit of the galea (the helmet)
There were lots of mushrooms to photograph - most were deleted. The white bits like to grab the light and the details goes too - this one had fab beige colours and sriong textures across the ripples
Grand gum trees too in the late afternoon light
Was pleased to find a few more clusters of pterostylis acuminata flowering
Flip side - a good 10 plants open here. Pretty sure I would have found some on the low side of the track. Did not look today. I did share the finds with 3 ladies walking past - the ladies like orchids
I did check the side of the track walked last week - remember the blue mushrooms? They have come on a bit since last time. Have done some research since last week’s photos.
Some are hallucinogenic - some are poisonous. They look less unfriendly this week as the blue moderates
Twin sharp greennhoods - great to find 3 locations with good colonies
Woollsia pungens -a few plants
Garden escapee? No idea what it is. iNaturaliste is suggesting a salvia = garden escapee
Banksia twins
On the mossy bank in the rainforest - chiloglottis leaves opposed on the ground and a leaf forming up - thelymitra based on last year sighting here
Excuse the text in the middle of the photo = finger trouble
Now this was a photographer challenge - a twig in focus - two mushrooms - the top one a bit bigger than a matchhead. The bottom one - less than half.
Camera draws too much light from the mushrroms but the twig is in focus - award winning photo potential
Did find the next orchid group flowering- acianthus pusillis - even more of a photo challenge as the flowers are tiny. The pink version of acianthus pusilllis
Was hoping to find a few ant orchids going - it was a long walk to find them
Chiloglottis seminuda is my guess - the calli stay in the top half of the labellum
Some subtle differences - more calli - more prominent mound - hard to say - same or not
Mushroom time - this time in brown hugging the log.
Going to rest with chiloglottis seminuda
1st
Last few - terracotta pink mushroom
Epacris pulchella - NSW coral heath flower - pink form
Spied this wriggly form - well it was a cluster of wriggles. Butterfly caterpillars getting ready for winter.
Did cook dinner - stir fry up some bite sized prawn meat
Saute onions, garlic, red pepper and mushroom and Thai seafood paste - toss in the prawns and some green goodies
Serve with rice
Late night sending out emails for the latest launch
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12/04/2025
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Daily Activity, House Chores, Photowalking, Shopping, Walking
Height 183.0 cm
Weight 90.0 kg
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