SUNDAY BEST #206 - FOREST LITTER

Welcome to the meme, "My Sunday Best", which is a photographic and creative meme that allows you to showcase your talents in imaging. Every Sunday, you can post here showing an image you have created using your camera, (and/or) image processing software, and/or painting and drawing in the conventional way and have scanned in.

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1) Create your image and post it up on your blog;

2) Put the "My Sunday Best" logo image link somewhere on your post so people can click and come by here;

3) Leave a comment here once you have posted;

4) Visit other posters' blogs and be amazed with their creativity!

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The theme is of your own choosing, so post on any subject you desire.

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Last week, Taken for Granted from the US posted a beautiful image of a lonely road. Please visit his blog for more great photos.

HEALESVILLE COUNTRYSIDE

Countryside near Healesville in the Yarra Ranges Shire. The Shire of Yarra Ranges is a local government area in Victoria, Australia, located in the outer eastern and northeastern suburbs of Melbourne extending into the Yarra Valley and Dandenong Ranges. It has an area of 2,469.9 square kilometres, and at the 2011 census, it had a population of 144,541.It was formed in 1994 by the merger of parts of the Shire of Sherbrooke, Shire of Lillydale, Shire of Healesville and Shire of Upper Yarra. It has rich farmland, vineyards and magnificent areas of native forest.

This post is part of the Skywatch Friday meme.

BLACK TULIP

A FLORAL TRIBUTE TO BLACK LIVES UNJUSTLY LOST OR WASTED

This post is part of the Floral Friday Fotos meme.

IN THE PARK

Melbourne's lungs are large areas of parks, parklands, reserves and gardens that are spread throughout the metropolitan area. These provide a welcome natural resource for the inhabitants of this five million people megalopolis. These ancient gums by the Werribee River are a beautiful and valuable heritage for city dwellers' children.

This post is part of the Skywatch Friday meme,

and also part of the Friday Photo Journal meme.

AUTUMN HUES

For friends in the Northern Hemisphere, this is for you, as Autumn is well truly advancing in your part of the world...

This post is part of the Mosaic Monday meme,
and also part of the Macro Monday meme,
and also part of the Through my Lens meme,
and also part of the Seasons meme.

DANDELION SEEDS

This post is part of the I Heart Macros meme.

FRIAR'S COWL

Arisarum vulgare, common name the Friar's Cowl or Larus , is a herbaceous, perennial, with an underground rhizome plant in the genus Arisarum belonging to the family Araceae.  the plant reaches on average 10–30 centimetres of height.

The leaves of this geophyte plant are basal only, wide, ovate to arrow-shaped, with a petiole 12–15 centimetres (4.7–5.9 in) long. The stems are erect and unbranched, usually mottled and grow directly from the underground rhizome. A single leaflike bract (spathe) forms a purplish-brown or olive green striped tube about 5 inches long, with an open upper part helmet or hood-shaped curved forward. It encloses a fleshy greenish club-like spike (spadix) bent forward, protruding from the tube and bearing at the bottom minute purple violet flowers.

The 20 male flowers are located above the four to six female, with sterile flowers completely missing. The flowering period extends from October through May. The sexes are united in the same individual plant. Pollination is granted by insects (entomophily). The fruits are greenish berries of about 1 centimetre  long. This plant is native to Asia and Europe occurs in the entire Mediterranean, in Portugal, in the Canary Islands, the Azores and Madeira.

This post is part of the Floral Friday Fotos meme.