Strings of Surface Algae

[DonSchaeffer]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QPg_hSyGQE
The old mud puddle is still bringing me some joy. When I looked down into it today, i could see what looked like white clouds blown in the wind as the earth might look like from the space station. The "clouds" were delicate islands of thin algae along with cyanobacteria floating in the rich life soup. These algae clouds sheltered an active family of small protists.

[smollerthings]

Nice!

Amazing how life reinvents itself at every moment. I have a pot of water from the nearby lake and every time I get a drop to put under the microscope, I see something new.

[DonSchaeffer]

I agree. Well of course you do select different samples each time, probably from different places that could represent different biomes even in a small container. But, I really agree that there is a developmental pattern in these samples.