A Walk in the Rain

Another little field trip this afternoon, this time to Sparrow Ground Reserve in Ballarat. It is a small reserve, tucked between houses. Again, it is somewhere I was unaware of until very recently, but it is within easy walking distance of where I lived in Ballarat while our house was being built.

 A small group of flower hunters braved the heavy rain. You had to be careful where you put your feet:

Or you might stand on something like this:

This is a common onion orchid, Microtis unifolia, which can be very hard to spot among the grass.

We didn't find any other types of orchids open, but there were lots of other things to see.

Tiny wildflowers everywhere.

This is a chocolate lily, Arthropodium strictum:

It's called that because it smells like chocolate, not because of any connection with the plant chocolate comes from.

After about an hour it was time to head home to a hot cuppa. But we will visit Sparrow Ground again in better weather, now we know it exists.