Desktops, What pic is on yours?

Oh this is my absolute favorite Scottish castle! I think I am going to make this pic my new desk top now. Thanks Mike!

I love Monet too, but my favorite artists are the pre-raphaelites which is where I get my avatar from.

Here is what I have now. I took this photo back during Christmas while I was showing my sister from out of state our desert.

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I'm guessing you took that with a digital camera.

I can even see the razor wire, and I wasn't even looking for it !

Very nice !

Yep, took it with the digital. Actually, that is my sister-in-laws property; thus, the razor wire to divide the land boundaries!

Here's mine.

It's called The standing Stones of Stennes in Scotland.

The circle originally had a diameter of 31.7m (104 ft) and a total of 12 stones. Now only four unusually shaped stones remain; the tallest is about 5 m (16 ft) high, but not far away at the southern edge of the Bridge of Brodgar, is an even taller stone of 5.6m (18.5 ft) high and known as the Watch Stone. This may have been part of a line of standing stones linking the Stones of Stenness with the nearby Ring of Brodgar.

The site dates back to about 2970 BC, but the ditch and outer bank are now almost disappeared; the three stones of the cove were reconstructed on 1906. Actually, the cove has been 'restored' using some fallen stones to form what was then mistakenly thought to have been their original formation.

According to Dr.Robert Henry, an 18th century antiquary, the site was once known as the Temple of the Moon, and the Ring of Brodgar as the Temple of the Sun. There are stories of couples going first to the Temple of the Moon, where the woman fell down on her knees and prayed for strength, and then going to the Temple of the Sun where the man did the same. Each New Year's Day, the local people met at Stenness church and danced and feasted for several days.



Lily O

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Aw, yes Lily! I have that one too! It is a beautiful site isn't it? I have used that as an avatar before.

CelticRose,

Yes it came from a site called Stone Pages. I subscribe to there newsletter. It gives you updates on new discoveries as well as existing stone circles, dolmens, ancient standing stones, cairns, barrows, hillforts and archaeological finds and of there preservation. It's one of my favorite newsletters. I'll attempt to put a link below. Excellent HI-DEF photos great to save in a folder and use the "My Folder Screensaver".

Stone Pages

Here's a link to another wallpaper site.

Wallpapers

Some of those are really pretty, especially the one of Yosemite National Park in the winter!

I usually just get my wallpapers from Google Image Search.

Here's what I just set as my desktop wallpaper. I posted it in another thread, but this is just too pretty !

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Lily, thank you so much for that stone circle site! I put it in my favorites as I love those.

I usually use the photos I have taken as my desk top or some hunky celebrity I really like.

Actually I have right now a nice desktop background with Gerard Butler as Attila. And I created several screensavers with him for my computer. One with Phantom pics and music and others with promo pics with other music.

Here's what I have right now. It's of the clubhouse of St. Andrew's, where the Open Championship (correct name for the British Open) will be played this year.

BTW, I just counted up all the pictures I have set aside for wallpaper. 81 pics ! Most of them I just downloaded using Google or Yahoo!.

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Here's one I just created. It's of my two favorite female rockers-Shirley Manson of Garbage and Amy Lee of Evanescence.

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Here's a very pretty one of the Eiffel Tower I got off the Internet. I just set it as my desktop.

As you can tell by most of the pictures I've uploaded here, I love landscapes and cityscapes .

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Hey! Mike! That is a great photo of Amy Lee. I love Evanescence! I hope they come out with a new CD soon. Like Shirley Manson too. Isn't Garbage from Scotland..........or did I have a dream?

Here is my current wallpaper now from my trip to Oregon. Just when I was taking the photo, my nephew jumped up there on the rock as he was taking photos too, but he got in MY sunset shot!



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