Any idea what substance (above) was digitally photographed with a cheapo microscope? Hints: x60 magnification; the title; and I bought the stuff at a health food store. Answer below the fold.

All-natural peanut butter (PB). Very oily with chunks of peanut skin.

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Okay, the image quality is pretty bad. But for a toy digital microscope, what can you expect . . .

Can you guess what “it” is? Hints: the title; x60 magnification; and the darker-to-lighter-to-darker coloration.

Answer below the fold.

Carrot. Couldn’t see it? Maybe you should be eating more of them.

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An idea what this is? How about from this view:

Hints: The post title; x60 magnification. Answer and another pic below the fold.

A lime. Here’s one not of the rind, but of all flesh.

Tonight we’re supposed to experience a frost/freeze. Last year we had a deep freeze that killed our young lime tree back to the ground. Now it’s a spindly, fruit-less shrubby growth. I wonder if I should “harvest” the dozen grapefruits we have ripening on that tree. I’ll have to see what Google suggest.

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What’s the above worth? Hint: x60 & think outside the box. And by box I mean U.S. border.

Answer below the fold.

A 1 Euro coin.

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What was beneath the digital microscope lense when I snapped the above image?

Hints: x60; it may be edible, or not. Answer below the fold.

A piece of chewing gum.

Is chewing gum edible? Maybe the sugar, if not sugar-free.

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Hmm. The above image from a digital microscope suggests the flow of a liquid. But those lines are too clean to have occurred naturally. Right?

What is it?

Hints: Magnification is x60 & if you choose to phone a friend for an answer, you just might encounter it. Answer below the fold.

The SIMM chip to a cell phone.

During manufacture perhaps liquid metal did flow atop it, connecting nodes on the tiny circuit board.

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What is the above? To the naked eye it appears to be a perfectly, smooth, unblemished thing-a-ma-jig. Under 60x magnification we realize it is far from perfect. But what is it?

Answer below the fold.

The flat surface of a piece of plastic molded into a “hose cap.” You put it on any male, garden-hose fitting to cap it off.

Plastic. If ever there were an appropriately named substance…

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Any idea what the above is?

Hints: The title, x60 magnification.

Answer below the fold.

A U.S. currency penny, minted in 2008.

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What the heck is the above? Hints: It fit under my “Amazon Special” digital microscope; the magnification is x60; the title means something. Oh, and you won’t find an amphibian sitting here. Answer below the fold.

The underside of a vibrant, green lily pad.

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Whether or not a rose by another name smells as sweet (sorry Bill Quillmaster, you’re off on this one — most people would find “vomit blossom” less sweet), is a blossom from another perspective as beautiful?

Um. Probably not. While the above x60 digital microscope shot of the tissue to a Mexican petunia blossom is kinda neat, it likely causes a different type of arousal than naked-eyeball-grade beauty. At least to those minds aroused by such things.

And? Who said “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”? That person neglected to also mention angle, zoom, and lighting.

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