wallpapers

Happy December! Living on a ship off the coast of West Africa, there's not much that really screams "Christmas," but hopefully these wallpapers will help a little.







The Advent season on the ship is special, and not just because it's the one time of the year where real candles are allowed (only for the Sunday night services in the Advent wreath). It's the end of an outreach, and as we look forward to the coming of the Saviour, we look back at the Light that He's already brought to this country through us over the past year.

(Click any of the photos to be taken to the larger size that you can download and use as a wallpaper.)

If you downloaded any of the November wallpapers, please accept my scatterbrained apology. I somehow managed to make all three of them with the month starting on Thursday, not Tuesday. I didn't notice until today when I started trying to make outpatient appointments on absolutely the wrong days.

Please accept my hearty apologies and these newly-uploaded backgrounds which have calendars that actually start on the correct day.







(However, if you just want them for the photos, then feel free to disregard all this!)

Some succulents, a campfire, and a bee on a flower. These are a few of the pretty things I've seen since coming home from Peru, and they're also the wallpaper choices for October. Only of of these has traditional 'fall' colours in it, so I think I might be clinging to summer a little more than I usually do. (Which is weird, since I've been dying for a few cool days before heading back to Africa.)







So if you're ready for fall, there's some yellow and orange, and if you can't bear to let go of summer, have one last campfire by the lake. It's your desktop.

I'm posting these early, because I'm getting ready to pack and go back to Africa, so I'm pretty much guaranteed to forget this if I don't do it now. Happy almost-October!

(Click the photos to get a full-size version that you can use as your background.)

These are a day late, due to the fact that I dropped the dear HoJ off at the airport yesterday morning at the awful hour of five. In the morning, people. Is that even legal? Which then meant that I had to get myself back to bed until eleven. (I only admit that given the fact that I am still recovering from a tropical disease. That's why I sleep so much. Please don't think I'm lazy.) And when I woke up, it turned out I was heading into the city to hang out with a good friend (more on that later), and by the time I got home it was most definitely time to sleep again.

With no further apology, a few calendars to grace your desktop for September.







It's all things I love to mark the season I love best. St. Patrick's at night, bokeh shaped like things and texture on walls in the third world. As always, click on the photo to get to the larger version.

Happy Septembering, everyone. And if you'll excuse me, I'm going to head back to Canada to see a couple of the cutest nieces in the world.

I know I said that July was my favourite set, but this month boasts my so-far all-time favourite background. I'm slightly obsessed with giraffes (something to do with identifying so strongly with their height and mild awkwardness), so there's really no question as to who will be gracing my desktop this month.

And, since I know that not everyone is as much of a giraffe lover as I am, there are a couple other summery options for you to choose from.







Enjoy!

Since July is my birthday month, I decided to use some of my favourite photos for these wallpapers. I'm potentially biased, but I think this is the best set yet. You've got a tropical island in Fiji and a nice cool drink to choose from. Or, if it's already too hot where you are, you can cool things down with some snowy mountains and lupines.







What's not to love?