A cold and raw day here in North Carolina, off from work with a wintery mix falling and ice forming on the trees and powerlines. Working in a textile dye facility, the probability of the power going out due to icy downed power lines, tends to shut things down, seeing as how if a roll of cloth is in a dye jig that suddenly stops, it is going to stay there and the dye will accumulate at the bottom of the roll, thus concentrating the dye in one spot only and ruining the roll of cloth. So...off from work and left to my own devices this day, I am still using my crude little microtome, which is nothing more than a sewing thread spool with a metal washer glued to the top and a wooden dowl in the spool hole as the mechanism for advancing the subject to be cut, in this case the bud of a Gray Dogwood tree embedded in candle wax. The cut made using a thin double edge razor blade with one edge taped over to keep from cutting myself...again.
The upper image shows the little flower petals, I believe, that were once waiting for the coming of spring but now that having been "cut" short or terminated. The lower image is that of the lower section of the bud directly below the flower petals. Some of the cellular structure of the bud can barely be made out.
Thanks Bruce 
Had to look that one up in my "Websters" there Bernhard