For the next four weeks we’ll deck your desktop with holiday images. Week 1 A BEARY MERRY HOLIDAY SEASON! Just days out of the den, polar bear triplets follow in their mother’s footsteps on their first journey to the Hudson Bay coast. Canada’s Inuit call this initiation atiqtuq, “bears going down to the sea.” Photograph by Norbert Rosing Click your monitor size to download image: - 15 inches (38 centimeters) or smaller - 15 inches (38 centimeters) or larger Week 2 JINGLE ALL THE WAY! A team of horses ring in the holidays. The owner supplements his income by offering sleigh rides on his property near Sutton, Vermont. Photograph by Michael S. Yamashita Click your monitor size to download image: - 15 inches (38 centimeters) or smaller - 15 inches (38 centimeters) or larger Week 3 SILENT NIGHT All is calm under frosted moonlight in a snow-blanketed Vermont wood.             Photograph by Michael S. Yamashita Click your monitor size to download image: - 15 inches (38 centimeters) or smaller - 15 inches (38 centimeters) or larger Week 4 PEACE ON EARTH The tranquility of nightfall washes over a church in Irasburg, Vermont.                 Photograph by Michael S. Yamashita Click your monitor size to download image: - 15 inches (38 centimeters) or smaller - 15 inches (38 centimeters) or larger For Windows 95 or Higher 1. Determine which size is appropriate for your monitor. 2. Click the size you wish to download. 3. After the image appears in your browser, click the right-hand button on your mouse. 4. On the menu that pops up, select SET AS WALLPAPER For Macintosh 1. Determine which image size is appropriate for your monitor. 2. Click the size you wish to download. 3. After it appears in your browser, drag the image onto your desktop. 4. From the Apple Menu (at the top left of your screen) select CONTROL PANELS, then DESKTOP PICTURES or APPEARANCE. (If the new window reads APPEARANCE, select the tab that reads DESKTOP.) 5. If necessary, click REMOVE PICTURE to clear the current desktop picture. 6. Click SELECT PICTURE or PLACE PICTURE, then locate and click the image file. 7. Click OK or CHOOSE. 8. Finally, click SET DESKTOP.

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