The rains moved in today, and with the blackflies and gnats in the wet air, my granddaughter Stasia opted for indoor time. But before we shut the door on the outside world, we walked the yard in search of "interesting things" for our project. Thanks to the largesse of large companies and universities, I've wound up with a couple of stereo microscopes of pretty decent quality. One, a Unitron, I found at the dump; the other was passed my way by a sympathetic biologist who was cleaning out a cabinet filled with curiosities. Both scopes were old but still perfectly serviceable, and I brought out one to show Stasia. She was hoping I'd be showing her a drone, but a microscope was pretty novel, and once we'd collected leaves, flowers, and bugs, she was hunched over the eyepieces and utterly fascinated by the details of a brand new world. I hadn't expected her interest to last too long, but half an hour into our explorations, she was still very much into every new item she was seeing in an utterly new way. "This is so amazing," she exclaimed over and over. She's so right.