Birch seeds and catkin scales as miniature leaves for dioramas
So all you Northern types who live surrounded by birch trees–there are those winter days when the wind blows and the snow ends up with piles of birch seeds and birch catkin scales all over the place. Very pretty, but do you know what all those itty bitty birch bits are good for? I didn’t until this week when something odd happened on my blog.
I did a blog post several years ago about a blustery winter day and posted photos of birch seeds and catkins strewn all about. In recent blog statistics I noticed multiple hits for that old blog posting–almost 50 hits coming from all over the world.
I finally tracked the hits to a link posted on a website for large-scale model builders who construct dioramas for their models. Turns out if you put down a thin layer of glue on your diorama and then sprinkle birch seeds and catkin scales liberally over the glue you end up with piles of just-the-right size autumn leaves! Here is a link to that page.
The person posting the link evidently thought my piles of miniature leaves were good examples. The power of the internet! Here is a link to my original post.
Who knew?
