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Nice color.

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Well, that title pretty much covers the whole place, even where the citizens are just resting. These protists are grazers in a resource-rich region. They live in a resource-rich environment and feed on the product of protists who make the milk--i.e. predigested vegetation. They don't have to hunt. T...

I stay here
day after day
Imagining.
I tax my memory.
I warm the past,
drag it from the darkness.
I am constructed
with devices to
deny time. I
stretch the present
and pull it out
into a cover for time.
I find the treasures
to re-ignite.
I dream the past.

Wonderful color and texture!

The new grass is finally showing green in the lawn after a long cold season in Winnipeg. I took a sample of a small broad leaf grass in the lawn. I looked at it un-scraped and then I scraped the outer layer of cells (top then bottom) to clear the cell membranes.

https://youtu.be/e2aTQtJ6ars

The biome is a pile of living things moving through a syrup of digested vegetation. The cell structure of the leaf residue is lost. It is now a mass of dense green syrup with lumps of still undigested leaf structure. I can no longer discern the cell structure in what was grassy leaves before. https:...

Wow! Thanks for the kind words. You know you are feeding a huge ego. I never saw much color in the world of microbes. They are usually translucent.

I've been watching this biome for weeks. It's a very dense biofilm with bits of solid material floating through it. The digestion of much of the vegetation by the protists is clear. Now I am seeing an ameba returning. It seems like the range and variety of protists may still develop with time. https...

Thanks--that guided my looking.

I celebrated Spring by examining a brand new blade of grass from root to leaf. The root was still coated with dirt, exactly as it emerged from the soil. I used magnifications from digital microscope to high power objective for these images.

https://youtu.be/8gSEIvjYI9A

Impressive catch. The only problem I can't tell what I'm seeing. Could you add a bit more description?

This is more of the thickening vegetable shell floating on top of the water. The microbes are prospering as they process the proteins in the water and generate biofilm. I'm never bored watching them.

https://youtu.be/rAf17mHjmYI

Thanks Macmotion. I am actually seeing a little bit of eating other microbes behavior. That was missing until now. They were all absorption feeders.

I just stuck my pipette close to the bottom of my water jar to get a sample. After several weeks my water sample has separated into a dense biome that sinks to the bottom of the jar and another biome which floats on top. The middle of the sample is clear water. There appear to be sampling difference...

Neat images!

The pineapple fruit is topped by a formation of stiff stickery leaves. These are usually tossed off as unimportant. However, the leaves of a pineapple have their own unique look. They are very stiff and hard and close to protect the fruit almost like a shell. The cells are big and bold. They have a ...

This is basic life on Earth. They are all hungry and frantic. They couldn't servive if they weren't even if they knew what survival means. I see something in these pictures I have not seen for a while: instances where the protists look like they are actively feeding. Do they know? I keep asking the ...

This is basic life on Earth. They are all hungry and frantic. They couldn't survive if they weren't even if they knew what survival means. Do they know?

https://youtu.be/L85_7zQn90U

The cells that make up leaves are generally all the same. But microscopic examination suggests that cells have individual differences from each other. These differences appear to be due to both heredity variance and variance due to growth conditions.

https://youtu.be/oIg-_ncY-KU

I was a monster today. The boy wouldn't look at me. He hid his face when I appeared at lunch and tried to run away but couldn't get far. Was I ready to consume him? Perhaps. He had waited. I wonder if I was some kind of dream. My body had alrady begun to fade and for him I already did, small pieces ...

The biofilm is reaching a late stage. I keep adding nutrition and the biome gets more dense. It has become something of a management problem when the biome materials pile up on the slide. It's still too cold in Winnipeg to collect a new sample. Still, I may have to reduce this one. https://youtu.be/...

Egg shells have an inner layer of knotted fiber and an outer layer of solid crystal excretion. I examined the inner lining layer. These layers are discernable through the microscope viewed at high power. The fibers are hard to see. because they are extremely thin and they congeal together. https://y...

The water is full of very small organisms that pack the water and dim the image. Because of a previous experiment some of the image is clouded--the lens needs cleaning, But I would say this is a microbe chaos.

https://youtu.be/drF0f1weZfo

This plant growing in the lawn has a deep textured surface with a lot of hair-like projections. The cells are complex. The leaf also exudes chemical fumes which cloud the microscope image with close exposure, so high magnifications do not make clear images. I exposed the microscope objectives to che...

Moving among lumps of biofilm in the syrupy water medium, a variety of protists keep reproducing happily. This is the original biofilm sample I have been maintaining all winter, now into early spring. I will be adding new water samples as soon as I can find a natural water source in this suburban la...

Solid matter suspended in the biofilm has made the medium into a kind of syrup. There is a variety of protists in the water as always. I continue to add new vegetable matter nutrient. I still don't see much in the way protist eating protist activity.

https://youtu.be/59sMK_Adej4

This lovely flower is growing in the lawn. I violated a trust and pulled a petal from the flower. Close-up, at hundreds of times magnification, these pretty flowers have a special intimate beauty.

https://youtu.be/sbR0iZLJwKo

It's not that I breed these little things but I did invite them and encouraged them--my fundamental neighbors. These are the beings that inhabit my mudpuddles. I wish I could say more about them, but they are silent in their ordinariness.

https://youtu.be/n-BjHyQTiGQ

I cut a piece of carrot into thin horizontal slices and examined the top and bottom of a slice. I saw thick, irregular cells. The tops of the cells appeared to be more closed--with cells closer together--than the cells seen from below. https://youtu.be/RauvsppoDck Carrot Cells: macro view. When comp...