Water on a window screen, looking out into my backyward. Yes, that's a ficus tree. I know, you've only seen ficus plants, but really, they grow as trees here.

This image also incorporates a new technique I am trying, using the wide angle lens in macro mode.

The title is close to that of one of my favorite music pieces, Beethoven's 32 Variations in C Minor. Not oft heard, but for those of obsessed with variation as I, it is a masterpiece.

www.amazon.com/Glenn-Gould-Beethoven-Ludwig-van/dp/B00000...

(Explore 1.11.2008--Thanks friends!)

*worries about apocalyptic orange goo scenario*

Extracted from strawberries.

And his reprap selfreplicatiing machine