Desertphile's 'Windows Wallpaper' Web Site

Desertphile's
'Windows Wallpaper' Web Site

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These images are dedicated to Ms. Paullete Cooper.

In January of the year +2,004 GC I decided to run away and become a "cowboy." So where does a would-be cowboy or cowgirl run off to if he or she wants the life of a cowboy? Why, to an Indian Reservation of course! (I very much prefer the company of Indians to the company of people.) Any cowboy worth his beef and beans knows to bring a camera along, so I did so: a thirty-dollar 35mm idiot-proof wide-angle no-f-stop infinite-focus just-point-the-damn-thing-and-shoot camera. Considering the camera, I think it did a good job. I have rendered several of the photographs into the "Windows Desktop Wallpaper" images below.

1024x768 image link This Anasazi food storage bin is about 800 years old. It is hidden in a stark, isolated, lonely dry wash where the Apaches and Navajos (who raided the area) were less likely to find it. It is one of two that were built here: the second one, which was located below this one (you can see part of the second one's wall, and one of the cedar poles of the second one's floor, under the intact one). They were made with cedar poles on the floor, then five wall layers of adobe, then covered with cedar poles and woven grass. 800x600 image link

1024x768 image link Aunt Belle and Baby Goat One, a few days after Baby Goat One was born. Belle is not the baby goat's mother. I thought they would make a good "Windows Desktop Wallpaper" image. Belle Goat still has her winter coat on. 800x600 image link

1024x768 image link This rock clings on a canyon wall over 1,000 feet above the canyon floor. One day it will crash into the canyon, as so many of its sisters and brothers have done in the past. Elevation here is 7,550 feet. I thought it would make a good "Wallpaper" image. 800x600 image link

1024x768 image link Some day I will build a Hogan here, have a Navajo "medcine man" bless it, and live here. There is very good water, at 10 gallons a minute, pouring out of a spring nearby. 800x600 image link

1024x768 image link The frozen river and mesa butte. When spring came, the ice broke up and made a happy, chirping - giggling noise as it flowed around the rocks and trees. 800x600 image link

1024x768 image link This is the cattle's winter grazing land. The cows and their newborn calves were behind me when I took this photograph. 20 sheep used to live here, but they were too stupid to survive--- every week some coyote up and dragged one off into the woods for supper until there were none left. (I hate it when that happens.) This image has some good light-blue spaces for "Desktop" icons. 800x600 image link

1024x768 image link This is just after the first thaw of spring. There were a bunch of savage Injuns (Navajos) to the right of this image, preparing for a Way (Chant). The planned Way takes a few months to prepare, so they started "before Thunder sleeps" just after the thaw. 800x600 image link

1024x768 image link Another image of just after the first thaw. 800x600 image link

1024x768 image link Cynthia Jane, the hard-working cattle horse, is pictured here with a mesa butte in the background. When saddling her and otherwise handling her, I work on her "off" (right) side because she likes to nip people on her near (left) side. When tightening the cinch and mounting her, I generally avoid her nips by keeping well behind her shoulder. 800x600 image link

1024x768 image link Clark Mountain, with Ivanpah Spring hidden within it. My sibling Fredric and I have a secret deprogrammer hideout here, where we drag Scientology customers and forcibly convert them into Mormon Jesuit Islamic Hare Krishna Atheists. I have a non-paying gold mine here. This image has lots of bright space for "Desktop" icon placement. 800x600 image link

1024x768 image link Myself (Desertphile) riding Cynthia Jane, with Roark the cattle dog in the river with us. Have I got the BEST JOB IN THE WORLD or what?! The river water in this image ought to make pleanty of room for "Desktop" icons. 800x600 image link

1024x768 image link Here I am making the greenhouse pretty by planting water lillies. There is a turkey feather in my hat. Cowboy work ain't all riding and branding: there's also a great deal of horse dung to rake and muck, and other chores around the ranch.

1024x768 image link Here is a chunk of driftwood along a river. I think it makes a great image. 800x600 image link

1024x768 image link The flower garden. 800x600 image link

1024x768 image link Stud, mares, and young 'ns. The youngsters in this herd will soon be "broken to the bit," taught how to reign, and accept a saddle. 800x600 image link and also 600x480 image link

1024x768 image link Adobe jacal ("hah-call") with an orno in front. Now and then I come here to spend a night on my day off. 800x600 image link

1024x768 image link Another image of the jacal that shows the cliff face better than the previous image. I come here to sing with the coyotes. 800x600 image link

1024x768 image link This is a close-up image of the jacal. 800x600 image link

1024x768 image link A look at a mesa butte here on Dinetah. 800x600 image link

1024x768 image link Here is a image of the swimming pool down at the ranch. 800x600 image link

1024x768 image link Cottonwood split after its own weight killed it. The texture and contrast made a good image, I think. 800x600 image link

1024x768 image link During spring round-up and drive I rode James Brown (the gelding) and pushed the "doggies" westward towards their spring, summer, and fall graze. Come fall they will be driven back to their winter graze. 800x600 image link

1024x768 image link Here is an Injun running off a cow. No, wait a minute. That ain't no Indian... that's a cowboy! Damn good thing I didn't outs wit' th' shootin' iron and "trigger me an Injun" (as Louis L'amour once wrote). This was taken during the spring cattle drive. 800x600 image link

1024x768 image link Cowboy and dog. This was in early spring, just before a thunder storm--- heading west into the sun-set. 800x600 image link

1024x768 image link When I sailed alone ("single-handed") to the Hawai'ian Islands on a Lancer 30, the main sail blew out (tore apart) on the first day so I replaced it with a spare--- just to discover it did not fit the main boom! To make matters worse, 600 miles off-shore the back-haul broke, so I rigged this "fix." 800x600 image link

1024x768 image link On the single-handed Hawai'i trip. 800x600 image link

1024x768 image link On the single-handed Hawai'i trip, looking bow-ward and with standing rigging and signal halyard in the image. A storm is coming, so I was on deck preparing for it. 800x600 image link

1024x768 image link On the single-handed Hawai'i trip. The storm here is four miles off and coming my way. Under that dark sinister cloud was 35-knot winds and a very nasty bunch of rain. 800x600 image link

1024x768 image link On the single-handed Hawai'i trip. The storm half-a-mile away and glaring at me with lustful malice. This was while 620 miles off-shore with San Diego to the north-east and Isla Guadalupe to the east. The trade-winds were still some 200 miles to the south. During the storm I discovered that the boat leaked like a sieve. 800x600 image link

1024x768 image link Santa Barbara Island, the first day on my trip to Hawai'i. 800x600 image link

1024x768 image link Yet another typical sun-set on the way to Hawai'i. 800x600 image link

1024x768 image link On the way to Hawai'i, half-way there. 800x600 image link

All of these images are © copyright 2003-2004 by Desertphile Publications. One may use these images for personal use, provided you are not a member, nor working for, organized crime such as the Mafia or Scientology Inc. These images may not be sold, nor placed in any collection of images, nor used in any commercial and/or mercantile manner.

Use your mouse to move the mouse cursor over an image on the left of the screen, then use the left mouse botton to see the full-size 1024x768 image. You may copy the image using your browser's "Save Picture As...." feature (often the mouse's right button will pull up a menu for this option). These images are dedicated to Ms. Paullete Cooper.
In January of the year +2,004 GC I decided to run away and become a "cowboy." So where does a would-be cowboy or cowgirl run off to if he or she wants the life of a cowboy? Why, to an Indian Reservation of course! (I very much prefer the company of Indians to the company of people.) Any cowboy worth his beef and beans knows to bring a camera along, so I did so: a thirty-dollar 35mm idiot-proof wide-angle no-f-stop infinite-focus just-point-the-damn-thing-and-shoot camera. Considering the camera, I think it did a good job. I have rendered several of the photographs into the "Windows Desktop Wallpaper" images below.
1024x768 image link	This Anasazi food storage bin is about 800 years old. It is hidden in a stark, isolated, lonely dry wash where the Apaches and Navajos (who raided the area) were less likely to find it. It is one of two that were built here: the second one, which was located below this one (you can see part of the second one's wall, and one of the cedar poles of the second one's floor, under the intact one). They were made with cedar poles on the floor, then five wall layers of adobe, then covered with cedar poles and woven grass. 800x600 image link
1024x768 image link	Aunt Belle and Baby Goat One, a few days after Baby Goat One was born. Belle is not the baby goat's mother. I thought they would make a good "Windows Desktop Wallpaper" image. Belle Goat still has her winter coat on. 800x600 image link
1024x768 image link	This rock clings on a canyon wall over 1,000 feet above the canyon floor. One day it will crash into the canyon, as so many of its sisters and brothers have done in the past. Elevation here is 7,550 feet. I thought it would make a good "Wallpaper" image. 800x600 image link
1024x768 image link	Some day I will build a Hogan here, have a Navajo "medcine man" bless it, and live here. There is very good water, at 10 gallons a minute, pouring out of a spring nearby. 800x600 image link
1024x768 image link	The frozen river and mesa butte. When spring came, the ice broke up and made a happy, chirping - giggling noise as it flowed around the rocks and trees. 800x600 image link
1024x768 image link	This is the cattle's winter grazing land. The cows and their newborn calves were behind me when I took this photograph. 20 sheep used to live here, but they were too stupid to survive--- every week some coyote up and dragged one off into the woods for supper until there were none left. (I hate it when that happens.) This image has some good light-blue spaces for "Desktop" icons. 800x600 image link
1024x768 image link	This is just after the first thaw of spring. There were a bunch of savage Injuns (Navajos) to the right of this image, preparing for a Way (Chant). The planned Way takes a few months to prepare, so they started "before Thunder sleeps" just after the thaw. 800x600 image link
1024x768 image link	Another image of just after the first thaw. 800x600 image link
1024x768 image link	Cynthia Jane, the hard-working cattle horse, is pictured here with a mesa butte in the background. When saddling her and otherwise handling her, I work on her "off" (right) side because she likes to nip people on her near (left) side. When tightening the cinch and mounting her, I generally avoid her nips by keeping well behind her shoulder. 800x600 image link
1024x768 image link	Clark Mountain, with Ivanpah Spring hidden within it. My sibling Fredric and I have a secret deprogrammer hideout here, where we drag Scientology customers and forcibly convert them into Mormon Jesuit Islamic Hare Krishna Atheists. I have a non-paying gold mine here. This image has lots of bright space for "Desktop" icon placement. 800x600 image link
1024x768 image link	Myself (Desertphile) riding Cynthia Jane, with Roark the cattle dog in the river with us. Have I got the BEST JOB IN THE WORLD* or what?!* The river water in this image ought to make pleanty of room for "Desktop" icons. 800x600 image link
1024x768 image link	Here I am making the greenhouse pretty by planting water lillies. There is a turkey feather in my hat. Cowboy work ain't all riding and branding: there's also a great deal of horse dung to rake and muck, and other chores around the ranch.
1024x768 image link	Here is a chunk of driftwood along a river. I think it makes a great image. 800x600 image link
1024x768 image link	The flower garden. 800x600 image link
1024x768 image link	Stud, mares, and young 'ns. The youngsters in this herd will soon be "broken to the bit," taught how to reign, and accept a saddle. 800x600 image link and also 600x480 image link
1024x768 image link	Adobe jacal ("hah-call") with an orno in front. Now and then I come here to spend a night on my day off. 800x600 image link
1024x768 image link	Another image of the jacal that shows the cliff face better than the previous image. I come here to sing with the coyotes. 800x600 image link
1024x768 image link	This is a close-up image of the jacal. 800x600 image link
1024x768 image link	A look at a mesa butte here on Dinetah. 800x600 image link
1024x768 image link	Here is a image of the swimming pool down at the ranch. 800x600 image link
1024x768 image link	Cottonwood split after its own weight killed it. The texture and contrast made a good image, I think. 800x600 image link
1024x768 image link	During spring round-up and drive I rode James Brown (the gelding) and pushed the "doggies" westward towards their spring, summer, and fall graze. Come fall they will be driven back to their winter graze. 800x600 image link
1024x768 image link	Here is an Injun running off a cow. No, wait a minute. That ain't no Indian... that's a cowboy! Damn good thing I didn't outs wit' th' shootin' iron and "trigger me an Injun" (as Louis L'amour once wrote). This was taken during the spring cattle drive. 800x600 image link
1024x768 image link	Cowboy and dog. This was in early spring, just before a thunder storm--- heading west into the sun-set. 800x600 image link
1024x768 image link	When I sailed alone ("single-handed") to the Hawai'ian Islands on a Lancer 30, the main sail blew out (tore apart) on the first day so I replaced it with a spare--- just to discover it did not fit the main boom! To make matters worse, 600 miles off-shore the back-haul broke, so I rigged this "fix." 800x600 image link
1024x768 image link	On the single-handed Hawai'i trip. 800x600 image link
1024x768 image link	On the single-handed Hawai'i trip, looking bow-ward and with standing rigging and signal halyard in the image. A storm is coming, so I was on deck preparing for it. 800x600 image link
1024x768 image link	On the single-handed Hawai'i trip. The storm here is four miles off and coming my way. Under that dark sinister cloud was 35-knot winds and a very nasty bunch of rain. 800x600 image link
1024x768 image link	On the single-handed Hawai'i trip. The storm half-a-mile away and glaring at me with lustful malice. This was while 620 miles off-shore with San Diego to the north-east and Isla Guadalupe to the east. The trade-winds were still some 200 miles to the south. During the storm I discovered that the boat leaked like a sieve. 800x600 image link
1024x768 image link	Santa Barbara Island, the first day on my trip to Hawai'i. 800x600 image link
1024x768 image link	Yet another typical sun-set on the way to Hawai'i. 800x600 image link
1024x768 image link	On the way to Hawai'i, half-way there. 800x600 image link
All of these images are © copyright 2003-2004 by Desertphile Publications. One may use these images for personal use, provided you are not a member, nor working for, organized crime such as the Mafia or Scientology Inc. These images may not be sold, nor placed in any collection of images, nor used in any commercial and/or mercantile manner.