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ncgrrl Aug 22nd, 2005 10:56 AM

My work computer is a photo of Mt. Zermat. It's good for a guided imagery relaxation moment.

AnthonyGA Aug 22nd, 2005 11:01 AM

I have a picture of the Eiffel Tower as desktop wallpaper at this particular moment.

cherylforeurope Aug 22nd, 2005 11:02 AM

Absolutely! Right now it's changing scenes for our upcoming trip next month to Germany, Austria & Prague from Webshots.com.

aeiger Aug 22nd, 2005 01:52 PM

Hi
Currently it's Trajans Market in Rome. I haven't changed it for some time time. I took it in January 2004.

ggnga Aug 22nd, 2005 02:17 PM

I started out with the idea of the Eiffel Tower but found the most gorgeous house in Provence with geraniums and roses all over. It makes me so happy to look at it.

Besides, I have 4 Eiffel Towers on my desk already. My 2 year old granddaughter loves the desk top. I look at it and the Eiffel Towers with her and tell her about France and how I will take her there some day.

wj1 Aug 22nd, 2005 03:33 PM

Am I the only one that still has "Dell" on my computer?

My feelings of inadequacy are coming back.....

Madison Aug 22nd, 2005 03:43 PM

My desktop is of the Eiffel tower at night,taken from the Trocadero. Francophile - I have taken so many pictures of Notre Dame and none compare to yours. It's beautiful. I too visit Notre Dame everytime I am in Paris. First thing I do when I enter Notre Dame is to light a candle for my mother.

march123 Aug 22nd, 2005 05:07 PM

I just got home and opened "worldinabag"'s links and now I see why these two beautiful pictures were filtered and deemed "pornography" at my work computer. Below the pictures are the following advertisements:


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Carmen Aug 22nd, 2005 05:17 PM

It was Stone Henge until a week ago...now it's my new puppy: Bella.

uhoh_busted Aug 22nd, 2005 05:57 PM

Oh, poor wjl! I take it you don't mean the Wisconsin Dells? Do you want someone to teach you the mysterious power of the right click?

Robespierre Aug 22nd, 2005 07:30 PM

By the way, that gal on my desktop appears to be a study for the sculpture on the northeast pillar of the Arc de Triomphe (facing Avenue de Friedland). I snapped it with a crappy camera and available light in the Arc museum just below the roof.

The final version seems to have turned out a little more restrained: France is still exhorting <i>La Grande Arm&eacute;e</i> forward, but somewhat less desperately, by my read.

<b>http://www.angelfire.com/oz/france1/france/Arc-De-Triomphe/Arc-De-Triomphe_33.jpg</b>

Jenn Aug 22nd, 2005 07:54 PM

Yes - right now it is the gardens in front of Buckingham Palace from June 2005. Beautiful! My alternate is of my son and 2 nieces in front of Notre Dame July 2005. Great daily reminders of a terrific trip.

xanthippe Aug 22nd, 2005 10:06 PM

Of course! I currently have a view of the Jungfrau and neighboring mountains taken from near Murren. I got the picture off the web. At my office I have a picture taken in Glacier NP.

I have a two-week-old grandson, and as soon as he stops looking so scrawny I'll have to put his picture up, at least for a while!

OT Aug 22nd, 2005 10:56 PM

Usually I have a picture of one of the beaches on Anguilla.

Last week it was replaced by a picture taken in Italy, it is of the Isle of Man U15 Cricket Team, my son is a team member and they had just won the European Championship.

dan_woodlief Aug 23rd, 2005 05:25 AM

I alternate various travel shots with photos of my kids. I love it best when I can combine the two. One of these days I want to put together a screen saver of various trips. When I am nearing new vacations I like to put up photos that make me think about where I am going. I can't wait to put on more Italy photos.

Areala Aug 23rd, 2005 05:44 AM

Of course, right now it is various, slideshow of Greece. For my upcoming trip in Sept. Usually after a trip to eruope the current pics of that country that I took go on as a slide show until I start preparing for the next trip then the new pics go up

uhoh_busted Aug 23rd, 2005 02:21 PM

Dan! Are you going to Italy again soon? Before or after the Raleigh GTG?

JJBhoy Aug 23rd, 2005 04:19 PM

Here's my desktop - it's a picture of me in Seville in May 2003;

http://www.celticsupporterassoc.co.uk/sevfansb1.jpg

Oh, I forgot to mention - there are around another 90,000 or so fellow Glasgow Celtic football fans in the photo too!

Jim

Meredith Aug 23rd, 2005 04:40 PM

JJBhoy, are you the one in green and white? :)

My desktop is a photo I took from the top of Notre Dame looking out to the Eiffel Tower.

SeaUrchin Aug 23rd, 2005 10:27 PM

Yep. At the office it is a still I captured from the Good Friday Procession on the Sorrento Web Cam. It is just as the Virgin is coming along the street with the crowd holding candles, all very surreal.

At home I have my own photo of wildflowers in Positano, but I change that every few months.


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