Wow 28 days of making things.  This was my fourth year and the toughest for me.  Thanks everyone who posted and encouraged me on.  Thanks wonderful wife for letting me go and create for month just to see what I make.

I collected the pollen from Powell Gardens just to make these slides.  Pollen is fascinating to look at.  It is different between dry and wet.  It is kinda flat when dry and swollen when wet.  Spikey buggers, no wonder they make you sneeze.  I t was like second nature to make these.  I have not used Canada Balsam to make permanent slides before.  But it did not slow me down.  The first slide is at 40x.  The second is at 10x because I could not find it at the higher magnifications.

Today I made coffee liqueur from coffee I roasted in my backyard.  I used a recipe from here.  It still needs to filter in a month.  And be shelved for three after that.  But there it is.

I wanted to add some details to the station to create back ground story.  It starts with a craftsman who made this box to help him do the repairs on his ship.  The wondrous submersible HMS Cephlododia.  It is owned by the next crewman who had that position and the next and the next.  In special order I think of them as Buddhist, Naturalist and Sailor.