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The recent issue of National Geographic has an article about pollen which is accompanied by lots of fabulous color-enhanced microscopic images. I can’t stop looking at them! Here, I scanned some for your viewing pleasure.
I made a compilation of a bunch of separate pics.

Now I know what the water from a productive netti session looks like up close. What amazingly gorgeous forms! And kudos to whoever did the coloring. That must have been a fun job.
Nasal irrigation is good.

In the same NG issue, there’s a fascinating article on the Hadza–a hunter-gatherer society of Tanzania that has changed little in the last 10,00 years or so! The series of really intense, close up portraits of members from the camp visited by the author is especially striking.
Here are three examples cut and pasted into one pic.

I’ve also been thumbing through a cheap used book store find from a while ago. It’s a book featuring art of The Virgin Mary. I love religious icon imagery and Mary is pretty rad.
More scans…

Yeah so, that’s some of what I’ve been looking at lately. That and I’m keeping a close eye on the ground so as not to fall over and sustain another idiotic injury.

Love and caution,
-Steph

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