Some pollen still in the anther of a flower at 200x

First marine water sample, first tardigrade!

Some art I got back then of one of the views up there! @bonesprouts.pet

Climbed 7FJ over the weekend! 8k climbed monster of a day This one meant a lot to me. 9 years ago I tried climbing here and, while I was unsuccessful then, I really fell in love with the Glacier Peak area. Felt like a really nice reflection on my life coming back and doing this one!

Nice day in the north cascades!

The inevitable next step of microscopy, biology! Having fun with some pond water samples Here’s what I think is some Cyanobacteria on his way! Oscillatoria 400x

Citric acid 400x It’ll never not fascinate me how much complexity exists at the tiniest scales This image is about a 400μm square. That’s 0.016 square mm! A cross section of a hair would take up half of this frame And yet all those little pillars, lines, jagged cliffs, and sheer drops are there

Citric acid 100x polarized light

Almost June and still being able to climb and ski is pretty fun

I kinda love that recrystallized ibuprofen looks a little evil

Citric acid from lime juice at 100x

Extinction crosses on starch crazy, this is just from like a tiny drop of the liquid on the cutting board

Potato cells at 100x Love that the starch is just physically packed in there!

This is so crazy

This is what flavor looks like

This was a jank setup with sunglasses and a laptop lol, so the photo is kinda bad getting polarizing film tomorrow

when I say I am bisexual I now mean I am birefringentsexual MSG under polarized light

Just found out laptop screen and phone screens are polarized, and with polarized sunglasses you can see photoelasticity really easily

Big fan of these shapes, love the little hexagon

More focus stacking stuff, MSG growing on salt crystals

found out how to do darkfield, gonna do some focus stacking later because this is sick

Tiny salt crystals coalescing

I skied down too! Fun climb, pretty area, and just the right amount of spice with steep icy snow and volcanic fumes pouring out of fumaroles

Mt Hood wolf

bunch of starch particles from whole wheat flour at 1000x Particles are: - flowing in the water droplet - wiggling cause of brownian motion - falling to the bottom of the slide and out of focus

Focus stacked some salt

This is what they look like on the slide

Interface between two MSG crystals Now it’s time to go to bed

MSG crystal Played with focus stacking

who up crystallizing they salt