This is unbelievably beautiful (magnified grains of sand)!

[RMorgan]

Hey folks,

Check this out!

http://www.spd.org/what-are-you-looking-at/sand_thumb_w_580.jpg

http://www.spd.org/what-are-you-looking-at/sand2-thumb-565x523-14771.jpg

http://www.spd.org/what-are-you-looking-at/sand03-thumb-565x403-14773.jpg

These are simple grains of sand, magnified 250x!

I guess these simple images give us so much to think about...They put things in perspective very well.

Cheers,

Raf.

original link: http://www.spd.org/what-are-you-looking-at/2012/02/this-is-what-sand-looks-like.php

[pixiestix]

Truly beautiful. Thanks for sharing this RMorgan.

[Cidersomerset]

The Bad Kids on the Block........


http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--Ozz9BNGIyI/Tr7cABZtLeI/AAAAAAAAEvQ/18pwh8N4JJE/s1600/Microbes.jpg


And worse of all.......The Disney Virus.....

WARNING PRESS START AT YOUR PERIL !!!

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I've pressed it , save yourselfe it will be in my head all night !!.LOL...

and I have actually been on the real ride a couple of times...Steve

[Lettherebelight]

Thank you, Raf so much, for sharing this beauty.

Who would have thought that simple grains of sand could have brought me so much wonder, realisation, joy and relief from the stress of living in the material world.

I hope you are having a really good day! :)

Vraja

[hectorlca]

Beautiful! I love that I've walked on these marvelous works of art without knowing about their level of complexity and detail.

[WHOMADEGOD]

I love my creator, genius and beauty combined!

[Billy]

Although it is said that Abrahams decendants would number greater than the stars in heaven and grains of sand on the sea shore,

but would they be as beautiful i wonder. here's hoping

peace

[Debra]

That is so syncronous Raf, I downloaded these same photos for myself yesterday.

[Dorjezigzag]

RMorgen there is something inspired about you at the moment,

We think of grains of sand being uniform and the same. This just goes to show the uniqueness of all gods creation. This is a beautiful expression of individuality, the microscope has looked closer at the sand, we all have inbuilt organic technology to look within and appreciate our own uniqueness. All of us are beautiful in our own unique way.

[RUSirius]

Hey Raf, I must agree, you're totally on point, thanks very much for your contributions here, I read all your posts. Sand...so cool, more mind expansion please...

[Caren]

I walk the beach often and see all kinds of interesting things but until today I had no idea how beautiful tiny grains of sand can be..
Thanks RMorgan, I will never think of sand in quite the same way.

[music]

This is not quite as colourful as the sand, but here are some images I took with the scanning electron microscope of some specimens I used during work classifying some new plant species. They are of woody shrubs in the paper daisy sub-family of the Asteraceae family (daisy family).


http://i1115.photobucket.com/albums/k543/music432/12BT5B.jpg

The underside of a leaf

http://i1115.photobucket.com/albums/k543/music432/7EF72.jpg

The carpopodium

http://i1115.photobucket.com/albums/k543/music432/7EF42.jpg

A bristle (pappus), the little filaments that surround a daisy seed and catch the wind.

Our view of the world is dependant upon the power of our discernment.

[nimmer]

That is so cool!

[Sesan]

Thanks RMorgan! I needed that. It's been a long day and those pictures made me smile. I'm happy now.
Sesan

[Ellisa]

As William Blake wrote:
"to hold the world in a grain of sand"...."and infinity in the palm of my hand"


It's beautiful!

[778 neighbour of some guy]

Amazing, sand is people too.

Suddenly the beach became a much more wonderous place, nothing but remains of our earliest ancesters, i knew they were still around:bump2:

[Ellisa]

I am bumping this up again because it shows us such a beautiful reminder of the delicate and fragile nature of life on this planet.

[Cjay]

Thanks Raf, those pictures are very beautiful. It makes me want to dig out my old childhood microscope, bucket and spade and head down to the beach.