@elbutterfield Lol, that's exactly what everyone in this house said when we realized we could see the spores. Nature is so pretty.
@tippitiwichet I learned how to make spore prints to identify mushrooms when I was living in the Pacific Northwest. I am still amazed at the micro-world.
@elbutterfield I hear you. I'm a housewife with a microscope. I've made only one spore print so far, on a microscope slide, and I was a dummy and crushed it with a slide cover. But I have two shiny relatively new mushroom identification books, and I'm already filling my photo folders with various fungi bits, I'll get around to many spore prints soon, I'm sure :)
@elbutterfield I did do that once, but it was an oyster mushroom and then later I read in one of my new books that their spores are white, which explains the failure, lol.
@tippitiwichet Yes, that kind of messes with the result, doesn't it? lol Back up plan: black construction paper. (Elementary school teacher approach) 😊
@elbutterfield Ooh! I'll remember that, sticking it in the head now.
@tippitiwichet I am a fan of kitchen science. Very fun to simply place the caps on white paper plates and cover with a bowl.