Skull-A-Day posted this wonderful submission from tsukinoblossom taken at the Montreal Orchid Expo.

Isn’t it wonderful when nature paints these tiny pictures for those who care enough to look closely?

Traditionally, orchids symbolize love, beauty and refinement. How interesting to throw a dash of the macabre into the mix.

See the rest of the orchid set here.

What a beautiful example of the worlds beyond the grasp of the naked human eye. Discovery has a wonderful little gallery.

Prismatic mineral fragments, microscopic coral pieces, tiny organisms, shells…what appears at a distance to be a mass of miniature brown rocks hosts a surprising array of shapes, colors and patters.

Under a microscope, these grains of sand reveal much about the biological and geological history of the local environment. Volcanic eruptions, eroded mountains, even remnants of decaying man-made structures.

See the rest of the gallery.