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maeve66This is a topic? I guess none of these is really much of a topic, and it's not like I've written any undying prose on the topics offered me, either. If that is what I set out to do with this meme (and I don't think it is) then I have failed miserably.
Nevertheless, all the other topics that came up were even stupider, and I can use this for a photo post.
My requirements for wallpaper are: nothing is cut off; the image is interesting to me personally; it avoids cliché (sunsets, beaches, close-ups of flowers, a pattern made of pebbles, etc.) I have a folder on iPhoto for pictures I like as wallpaper, and I change fairly regularly. Recent ones have included a photo of a silver "miniature caudle cup" crafted by one of the first two Colonial silversmiths in the 1670s, one Robert Sanderson, who turns out to be an ancestor of mine (and a more interesting one than the faint claims to Lord this and Sir that), and a copy of a scanned photo of my father's maternal grandmother as a toddler, with her two sisters, from Chicago in the 1880s. HELLA cute. I'll include those, shall I? And then a couple of other ones.
Wallpaper photos:
My ancestor the artisan's work:
Three Chicago girls
This time last year
An excellent Ganesh
My great-uncle training during WWII. Possibly also macking on some handsome young men. Not sure.
Dunno, I might have posted this before. These are, I believe, teachers, photographed by my great-aunt or my maternal grandmother when one of them was graduating 8th grade, therefore 1924 or 1922, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. The school building is still there, though not the trees and park.
More of my father's need for organization
Finally, a Christmas scene. M. jiggled the camera wildly for this "arty" shot. It makes great wallpaper, though. Very festive.
Nevertheless, all the other topics that came up were even stupider, and I can use this for a photo post.
My requirements for wallpaper are: nothing is cut off; the image is interesting to me personally; it avoids cliché (sunsets, beaches, close-ups of flowers, a pattern made of pebbles, etc.) I have a folder on iPhoto for pictures I like as wallpaper, and I change fairly regularly. Recent ones have included a photo of a silver "miniature caudle cup" crafted by one of the first two Colonial silversmiths in the 1670s, one Robert Sanderson, who turns out to be an ancestor of mine (and a more interesting one than the faint claims to Lord this and Sir that), and a copy of a scanned photo of my father's maternal grandmother as a toddler, with her two sisters, from Chicago in the 1880s. HELLA cute. I'll include those, shall I? And then a couple of other ones.
Wallpaper photos:
My ancestor the artisan's work:
Three Chicago girls
This time last year
An excellent Ganesh
My great-uncle training during WWII. Possibly also macking on some handsome young men. Not sure.
Dunno, I might have posted this before. These are, I believe, teachers, photographed by my great-aunt or my maternal grandmother when one of them was graduating 8th grade, therefore 1924 or 1922, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. The school building is still there, though not the trees and park.
More of my father's need for organization
Finally, a Christmas scene. M. jiggled the camera wildly for this "arty" shot. It makes great wallpaper, though. Very festive.
