Hello microscopists, from vernal pool at top of highland steep foothill, I encountered a diatom (average size as freshwater diatoms go in my observations) with many very small and tightly adherent diatoms attached to it.

I have not used my oil-immersion objective (100x,NA1.25,Plan,Reichert/Austria circa late 1960's) for months, I had to dig about in my file cabinet draw for the immersion-oil bottle!

The lower magnification image is: 40x objective+10x eyepiece. In both the oil-objective higher magnification images ( for each I changed the substage condenser settings just a little,each image with different settings)...in both the highpower images, I did not oil the condenser to the bottom of the wetmount slide(please don't tell anyone I was so lazy as not to do this?!!). I am still handholding a small 'point&shoot' camera to the trinoc vertical port and with camera set as:ISO, collecting my images 'quick and dirty' as some would say. charlie guevara NJ,US

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