https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su5ZB5Wpcjo
I'm waiting until the snow clears before I bring my artificial (mini) pond outside so I will have my own little pond. Meanwhile, I dug under the snow and pulled out some grasses, leaves, and other stuff that had spent the winter under the snow. With time to thaw, the living creatures are beginning to fill the water in their variety. Take a look!
lol. I guess a lot of people have them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2P1ihaLPjs
Have you ever seen an air plant? They don't need soil because the obtain their basic needs from sunlight and air. They usually reproduce using runners that can start new plants. However, this air plant started to flower to start a process of sexual reproduction. The flowers are most interesting and unusual. Take a tour with me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p3IGQl1Fg4
It's a perfectly nice day in the micro-neighborhood. Come along with me as I take a little stroll to see how my micro friends are doing. You won't need you coat.
The trouble is I am just a tourist. I don't know botany or the names of parts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwS41dxV8gI
This is a tour of a very special rhizome--a piece of ginger--part of the plant's method of non-sexual reproduction. If you look at the outer surface of the ginger you see large, gracefully flowing surface cells. If you look beneath the surface, you see tiny circular cells huddled together in groups. Ginger offers a lovely tour environment.
It sure sounds like I would. But I live in a small room and I have no real questions or maybe just undefined questions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8tPUP5XsE0
This video compares my three mud-puddle environments side by side. It gives you a chance to evaluate the differences. The old mud puddle has been dominated by algae which includes a lot of diatoms and cyanobacteria. The salt water biome has become a world of floating biofilm islands. The most recent tank sourced from material revealed in a recent snow melt outside, decaying leaves and grasses, is a world under development which I will eventually bring outside in hopes that it will begin looking like a wild water source.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nxb5mn9Am3M
I toured a brand-new leaf that had emerged from the base of a houseplant. It was a lovely trip into the heart of an organic unit. Orderly cells on top of the leaf were there but hard to see because cell walls were very thin. The complex mixture of structures on the bottom of the leaf was challenging. The stem of the leaf, which had connected it to the main body of the plant had a range of cell types. It was a sweet and eventful journey.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhMxXq1q2KY
Four days ago I began my project of starting a real mudpuddle or micro- stagnant lake with a plan to set up an aquarium outside (as soon as it gets warm enough) in which nature can take its course. As a start I took some samples from under the melting snow and put it in the aquarium. I am monitoring the emergence of life forms in the aquarium. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suc7H...)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnSudCA1xOM
Many kinds of leaves have evolved armor, a kind of shield on their top surface to guard against elements that could injure them. Top surface leaf cells are a tight organization of regular cells that fit closely together. Bottom surface leaf cells are much less well organized and include many variations that permit greater absorption.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suc7Hma_hl4
This year ' going to set up my own miniature artificial pond outside. I started by filling a small aquarium with grass, dirt, and water from the edges of the melting snow. For now, I took the aquarium inside to let it thaw and monitored the process of microbes coming out of their frozen state. You can see the gradual appearance of "purposive movement" as the smaller organisms thawed out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4tqdVCvZFc
I revisit one of my imagination's favorite attractions. The jade plant, an entertaining house plant in our macro living rooms, is a series of wonderous rooms under the microscope.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0sNfFcdi1I
Take a little stroll through a neighborhood in the mudpuddle which no longer exists. All our familiar ciliates, flagellates, bacteria, amoebas, diatoms. and cyanobacteria are there.