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Winter Sowing
philmont_709n2

Thought Everyone Here Might Be Interested! Microscope!

16 years ago

Hi everyone! I just recently bought myself a microscope with a digital camera built in! Being a curious person and one of science, I figured I needed one! And as I do with all my passions, mixed Winter Sowing with Microscopy! Most of the pictures are of pollen from plants that I winter sowed and am growing in my backyard.

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Squash Pollen

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Swamp Milkweed Pollenarium

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Thimebleweed Pollen

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Tiger Lily Pollen

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The dreaded Thrip!

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Pond Scum!

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Purple Coneflower Pollen

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Royal Catchfly Pollen

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Blackeyed Susan Pollen on Anther

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Spiderwort filament

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Spiderwort Petal's Cells

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Spiderwort Pollen

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Bee Balm Pollen

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Algae

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Nodding Onion Pollen

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Orange Touch-Me-Not Pollen

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Penstemon smalli Pollen

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Grey-Headed Coneflower Pollen

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Clammy Ground Cherry Pollen

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Liatris Pollen on anther

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Liverwort Cells

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Loosestrife Pollen

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Northern Madienhair Fern Spore

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Meadow Phlox Pollen

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Birdhouse Gourd Pollen

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Cattail Pollen

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Christmas Fern Spores

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Clammyweed Pollen

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Clubmoss Spores

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cut end of dayflower vascular cambium

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Dogbane Pollen

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Fleabane Pollen

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My Favorite, Evening Primrose Pollen

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American Bellfower Pollen

And last but definitely not least,

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American Chestnut Pollen

Comments (21)

  • 16 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    That is wicked cool! Thanks for sharing. Enjoy your new toy!

  • 16 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Makes me want to sneeze just looking at all of that pollen!

    Very cool. :)

    Lynda

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  • 16 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Your curiosity is wicked!!! Made me chuckle as I was drinking my morning coffee. I like the last one.:O)

  • 16 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Very nice. What type of photo-microsope are you using?

  • 16 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Very cool thanks for sharing.. dont be afraid to post more of these!

  • 16 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Lynda beat me to the sneeze comment, LOL. Cool pictures.

    Caryl

  • 16 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    FANTASTIC!! My kids and I loved it. Keep taking pics and posting. What fun!

    And, no sneezing from me. I won't sneeze till you post Ragweed.

  • 16 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Cool! I like how some of the pollen mimics how the flower looks like the echinacea and rudbeckia pollen is spiky looking which reminds me of the centers of the actual flowers.
    Remy

  • 16 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Very interesting.

  • 16 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Wow, philmont, how interesting! Amazing to see the plant life on that closeup level. My favorite is the American chestnut - and the BES with the anther - very pretty in a different way.

    Now I can imagine what the pollen looks like on the flowers when watching the bees in the gardens.

  • 16 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Very cool, philmont. Kind of like little plant eggs and sperm.

    I wanted another allergy pill, too.

    Karen

  • 16 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Nice photographs.

    I worked in a clinical laboratory for several years. There is a world that can be seen with a microscope that many cannot even imagine - even if they think they can imagine it.

    A spin-off footnote. Some geeks have discovered one can take a cheap digital camera and a magnifying glass and take pictures of features that are almost microscopic. I shake too much and have to figure out some way to steady two at the same time.

  • 16 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Very cool! Thank you!

    :)
    Dee

  • 16 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Wicked cool!
    They remind me of my biology classes. :-)

  • 16 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    LOVE LOVE Love all your pictures!!! Please post some more cool photos..what a neat new toy. Wish I had one! Could you post a link to your camera set up? Where did you buy it?
    Joann

  • 16 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    I have a greater appreciation for pollen now. : )
    Fun camera!

  • 16 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Cool pics! Why does the tiger lily pollen look like a bug?

  • 16 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Albert, I could barely read your last sentence without a microscope. :)

    Ladygladys, I think that's the "Thrip".

  • 16 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Your images are beautiful. I like the Algae and the Liverwort cells. They're modern art!

  • 16 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Thanks everyone! I got it off ebay for $330, it has a magnification of 40X- 2000X and has a 1.3 digital camera built into it. It doesnt have a model number that I can find, but it sure is fun!

    There will be plenty more pictures to come as more plants start blooming and I get their pollen and other microscopic structures!

  • 16 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    You should make a website for the photos, they're really quite marvelous.

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