Hadley-Ives computer desktops.
Page 7 (mostly nature)

Desktop images for downloading. Page 1; Page 2; Page 3; page 4; page 5; page 6; page 7; page 8.
copyright Aside from the Google advertisements, all text, images, and photos by members of the Hadley-Ives family.
Ramshackle cabin and woods in hilly terrain Mountains and a rock outcrop that looks like a stump Valley with a village on a cloudy day
A cabin in Calhoun County, Illinois, in a late stage of disrepair (November 2005).
1700 x 1275		 An interesting geographical formation on the slope behind my great-grandmother's home in Randle, Washington (July 2005).
2160 x 1350		 A valley in Norway and the town of Ringebu. It was from this area that some of my ancestors came to America in the 1880s (July 2003).
1440 x 900
A small white fungus that looks like a candelabra Pebbles of many different colors Pebbles of many different colors
Candelabra mushrooms growing on a log in Wildcat Den State Park, Iowa (June 2005).
1440 x 1080		 Pebbles on the shore of Jackson Lake in Grand Teton National Park (June 2005).
2160 x 1350		 Coarse coral gravel sand on the southern beach of Green Island off the cost of Taiwan (July 2012).
2400 x 1350
Pebbles in Lake McDonald, in Glacier National Park Ohanapecosh Pebbles Grandpa's polished pebbles
A desktop of pebbles in Lake McDonald, in Glacier National Park. Many of these little stones are red or orange. The water was cold.
1650 x 1200		 These pebbles in the Ohanapecosh River (a tributary of the Cowlitz River in the Washington Cascade mountains) look green.
2000 x 1500		 This is a scan of some pebbles my grandfather collected when he had a hobby of polishing stones. The scanner casts a green light, but I still like this as a desktop
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Warm reds and purples in yarn Stark dead trees against the white minerals looking like a landscape painting by Caspar David Friedrich A mountain looms in the background over a scene of burned trees, with a green meadow in the foreground
Yarn that has been dyed using natural dyes in one of the outer buildings on the Van Cortlandt Manor (June 2006).
2160 x 1350		 A view of the New Blue Spring flow on Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park.
(June 2005)
2171 x 1357		 Visible fire damage in northwestern Yellowstone National Park.
(June 2005)
2160 x 1350
A valley with steep sides, with a two-lane road passing through. A boardwalk path through some trees Evening light on barren hills of the badlands
A valley near Snowdonia in Wales (June 2003)
1440 x 1080		 A boardwalk trail in the Everglades National Park.
(January 2005)
2272 x 1704		 The badlands of Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta, Canada.
(July 2005)
1440 x 900
Teton Mountains rise up suddenly from a plain A warm early dawn light on Grand Teton Children at the top of a cliff with mountains in the background
Very early in the morning some mist in the plain in front of Mount Moran in the Grand Tetons (June 2005).
2000 x 1251		 Mount Moran in Grand Teton National Park in the dawn's light (June 2005).
2272 x 1704		 The scene as one ascends the trail toward Upper Grinnell Lake in Glacier National Park (July 2005).
2000 x 1500
dark water with mangroves and a dark sky Geese on the placid waters of the James River Reflective water on the calm Sangamon with fall colors on trees along the banks
Lucayan National Park on Grand Bahama Island.
(May, 1997)
1152 x 864		 The James River near the site of the Jamestown Colony in Virginia.
(April, 2006)
2880 x 1800		 The Sangamon River north of Springfield, Illinois (October, 2005).
1600 x 1200
Green colors in the woods around a little creek Pinks and yellows on the slopes of the canyon A fountain with colorful Spanish tiles
Wildcat Creek in Tilden Regional Park in the hills east of Berkeley, California.
(July, 2004)
1310 x 873		 Looking down the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. (June, 2005)
2272 x 1704		 A fountain in Balboa Park, San Diego, California (July 2004).
1440 x 900
A tiny prison island in the distance with mountains far away across the water Dark shadows and bright sunlight alternating on Mono Lake A lovely blue color of the hot spring with the Yellowstone Lake in the background
The Monk's Island (Munkholmen) in Trondheim, Norway (July 2003).
1600 x 1000		 Tufa on Mono Lake in California.
(August 2001)
2160 x 1350		 A hot spring (Abyss Pool) in the West Thumb geothermal area of Yellowstone National Park).
(June 2005)
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Pink dawn sky before sunrise with dark waves on the coast Dramatic clouds over the prairie meadow and an interesting sculpture on the horizon Sunset with palm and a boat out on the Gulf of Mexico
Sunrise over the Atlantic from Nag's Head, North Carolina (April 2006).
1280 x 800		 The Sunset in Meadowbrook Park, Urbana, Illinois (October 2004).
1600 x 1000		 Florida sunset in Clearwater Beach (February 2000).
2550 x 1685
Ramshackle cabin and woods in hilly terrain Mountains and a rock outcrop that looks like a stump Valley with a village on a cloudy day
A roof dragon looks out over the rainy hills of Sanyi Township in Taiwan (June 2010).
2240 x 1400		 Sunrise near Honolulu, Hawaii (June 2004).
2048 x 1280		 A roof dragon with a background of mist, clouds, and rainy highlands in Sanyi Township in Miaoli County, Taiwan (June 2010).
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If you want to download these images and use them as desktops, please feel free to do so. You can put all the images you want to use for desktops or screen saver images into a folder, and then use the System Preferences (in Macintosh) to set that folder as the sourse for screen saver images (all the images in the folder will be used). You can use iPhoto to import all the images in a "desktop pictures folder" you've created (where you store the downloaded images plus your own pictures), and then within iPhoto create an album for desktop photos. The System Preferences will allow you to set the contents of that iPhoto album as your desktop(s), and you can set the image to change at regular time intervals.