special place
enticing for a walk
orchids call
Walking the track out the back of our house in Bendigo is one of our favourite places. There is a small remaining pocket of ground where native orchids still flourish from Winter across into early Spring. These beautiful tiny plants were much more abundant everywhere in this area of The Bendigo Regional Park. However 2 severe wild fire burn offs by the State Government authorities during the last decade has all but eliminated Orchids now except in our special place that lies just at the edge of the burnt areas. We have an impressive photographic record of native orchids from this entire area dating back to the 1970’s, including a couple of species that we have not seen for 30 years. Each year we return with hope and cameras. Both these photos are taken at the same spot on the track. Charlie was trusted off lead in her mature years however Maggie must wait a while before she wanders the track independently.
This is my contribution to the one a week Photo Challenge and this week for number 45 the challenge is WALK . For this years 52 weekly challenges planned by Cathy and Sandra visit Cathy’s blog at https://nanacathydotcom.wordpress.com/one-a-week-photo-challenge-2017/
Haiku hound 
Too bad about the disappearing orchids- when we fiddle with nature in things like burn offs there always seem to be unforeseen consequences.
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Thanks for those thoughts Carol. The door is closing sadly, lets hope for some political leadership around the world on this one.
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So beautiful, dear Denis, Thank you, have a nice day and weekend, Love, nia
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Thanks Nia, its a very peaceful walk.
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I pray, that one day, your hopes are realized and you are presented with the proof that Mother Nature is more powerful than people
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Keep praying Annette, we need all the strength from the grass roots now, politicians are not much chop.
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Love them both, but especially the one with the red bag. It always surprises me how much a splash of red enhances an image.
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Thanks Cathy. Thats Jills collection bag as we walk and discover.
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What a shame that most of the orchids were eliminated.
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It is however some survive and we have our records and memories.
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It is so sad so many orchids have disappeared that could have been saved with better decisions at the time. You are very blessed to walk in this special corner and bring Maggie here – your haiku is beautiful ☺
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Thanks so much for your supportive comments Xenia. This is not on the same scale as your wonderful mountains but like them has such immediate appeal to those who walk and search for nature.
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“Orchids call” is enticing…makes me want to see them too. I like your photos —how they mirror each other and that they are taken in the same spot though years apart.
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They are beautiful plants, but tiny, only a couple of centimetres tall, usually with one flower. This was the place Charlie almost bumped into a Wallaby.
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Love how you introduced the orchids’ dilemma in your poetry, enticing the reader to wonder and then explain. Interesting before and after photos.
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Thanks for your perceptive interpretation of my Haiku Olga. The 3/5/3/ format is easier to create but much more difficult to satisfactorily execute. I find 5/7/5/ gets too wordy. However any combination is OK even 1/1/1 theoretically.
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Well, modern poetry of free verse would accept 1/1/1. 🙂
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Yes, but personally I don’t think I would try it.
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I think I might like to try 1/1/1 or perhaps 1/3/1. Hmmm…. intriguing.
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Wonderful walkiing memories. So good you recorded the orchids in photographs.
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