My Darling Wife went into the supermarket - I 'looked after the dog' - dragged her over to the Colt'sfoot and filled a 'pooh-bag' with a few nice flower-heads and seed-bearing heads! I did have several plants (from our last visit) in a trough in the garden, but I was 'persuaded' to remove them and plant 'proper flowers' instead....
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Anyway, placed several of the (dozens of) tiny flowers that make up the Colt'sfoot's composite flower-head into some tap-water on a slide, coverslipped and squashed lightly to remove air and get the coverslip to 'grip the water' as it were.
This is a stack of about 6 images taken through the 'scope with my 2mp 'Toupcam' - stacked in the super 'Toupview' software that complements the T-cam so well. The whole process from bag to image took about 10 minutes. Simply-done is I think the way to begin... An easy water-mount, very few images (5 or 6 as I remember) in the stack and the use of the superbly efficient, totally free and easy-to-use 'Toupview' (you can load any images into it, no camera needs to be connected if preferred).
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