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Quote: Originally Posted by ReneeB I was surprised to find out they moved the frost date back to April 21st in my part of Illinois. I love being out in the garden, this was good news Ok, got my microscope and slides.... surfing around at X100 looks like rough circle shapes. They are rather dark in color. they are really missed shaped, some have lil arm looking things comping out around the edges. There is also pill shaped clear things. At X300 they look like smooched dog fleas. some are really dark. others are clear, but you can see lines and such in it. I'm just looking at all the islands. At X1000 I see a bunch of tiny dark circles, then these bigger blobs are misshaped and have lines and such in them. some of the small back circles are solid, others have a a center i can kind of see. If this is ick, is there anything in I should be looking for? I looked around at photos online, none of that looks like what I'm seeing

Renee,

I'm newish to the whole microscope thing as well. Mine came with a USB camera for taking pics of what you're seeing. However, I've found that my digital camera actually takes a better picture. Turn off the flash, set the camera to ISO if you have that setting, put the lens of the camera up against the eyepiece, use zoom to tighten up the fram and voila. Decent shots for posting!

Grant