Firewheel pollen

Pollen from Stenocarpus sinuatus.

Fig and walnut bread

The other day I felt like baking, so I made maple walnut bread from the Grab Your Fork blog. I had some dried figs that were a bit hard and dry so I soaked them a bit and bunged them in. It made a delicious bread for Pyengana sandwiches (though Louka preferred it made into fairy bread).

More microscope

Graham figured out I'd been using the dino-eye camera wrong. Here are some better photos.

sugar crystal:


banana:

New toy

My wonderful husband gave me a microscope for my birthday! Such fun! Furthermore it came with a DinoEye eyepiece camera, so I can view and take photos on my computer. So far, I've only managed to look at some wool and a casuarina flower. I think I need more practice, but I'm enjoying it already.