As usual, here are several pictures you can put behind all those icons on your computer.

A pile of scrap metal.

Bricks.

Bricks stacked diagonally.

Red yarn at the carpet factory.

Dried fish in Mopti.

Smoked fish in Mopti.

Okra in the Djenne market.

Chili peppers in Djenne.

Millet in Djenne.

Guns like those melted down at the end of the Tuareg rebellion. In Timbuktu.

Circumcision grotto icons in Songho.

A Dogon village, seen from a cliff.

Animal skulls embedded in a wall of a Dogon cliffside dwelling.

A wall in Tiebele. "La Famille Anoug".

A rattan ceiling.

Ruts in the desert.

The ceiling of the kitchen in the school at Iferouane.

Camel vertebra.

Waves of sand.

The difference between desert photography and desert desktops is that you don't feel like you ought to up the contrast on the desktops.

The spring near Temet. If you rotate this -40 in the Hue dialog you get the atmosphere of Jupiter.

A twig blowing across the sand.

This looks upside down for some reason.

A palace wall in Abomey.

A wall in Abomey.

Reeds near Ganvie.

Mushrooms at a store in Paris.

Flowers in Paris. Before there were desktops, these images all ended up on really difficult jigsaw puzzles.