Things we miss...

Back before English Indiana was moved and bulldozed, this was a wonderful store--Sam Benz and Sons.  Floods and time took their toll.  The government had the town moved to a higher spot and the former town site is now a golf course. 

Like my hairdo?

It has been a while since I have had any photomicrographs, so I looked around to see what I could find.  I still had the Virgin Tiger Moth that I "featured" earlier so I looked at it under my Nikon Alphaphot.  I must say this guy has a gorgeous head of hair!

This is shot at about 100x (probably 2mm in width).

Spelunking in a different CAVE

I dug this photo out of my archives this last week and enhanced it a bit with Photoshop.  This was taken when there was still a CAVE ("Cave Automatic Virtual Reality") system on the IUB campus.  The goggles and a special tracking system allowed you to move around inside the image being viewed (in this case a large molecule).  I am not sure why I am down on my knees---

I can assure you that I never worked with any molecules that complex.  We just used them to impress visitors and make people think we were smart.

Order is essential in science....

This photo will only appeal to a few select people in the world.  Chemists who work with air sensitive compounds use a "glovebox" filled with nitrogen or another inert gas to keep their compounds from reacting (sometimes violently) with the oxygen we normally breath.  Needless to say order and neatness is essential when working in this environment.....

I am confident that the researcher in charge of this glovebox knew exactly where everything was located.  I do wonder about the Coke can in the middle of the top shelf.  How do you drink from it?

Backyard Birds--9

Every time I try to get a good shot of a Blue Jay at the close feeder they get spooked so I took this one on the "back" feeder. It is interesting that there were few Blue Jays around most of the summer but they have reappeared in the past few weeks.

Backyard Birds--8

I snapped this picture late last fall, but  the Cedar Waxwings visit my yard several times during the year.  They almost always attack the flowering crab apple tree in my neighbors yard, but I have also seen them in the Japanese honeysuckle in the back yard.  When they do come there are often several dozen at a time.

Dogwood leaves

The photo club was having a "photo share" with the topic "within 15 feet of your front door".  I was actually taking a photo of something else when I decided the Dogwood tree leaves looked colorful, so I snapped a shot just in case I didn't come up with anything better (I did, but I like this one anyway!).  This was taken the last week of October when the Maple tree had not fully taken on its fall colors.

I looked this morning and all the Dogwood leaves are gone, as are most of the Maple tree leaves in the background--welcome to winter!