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The first picture is something that was a very rough layout
sketch concept, which would have been developed into a picture--if I'd
had the artistic skill to do such a thing. 
I never expected, of course,
to make any used of this "background layout sketch" since it was never
develope beyond this crude stage. Why I didn't throw it away, in the first
place, I'll never know. Maybe because it did, somehow, have a "pleasing"
visual something about it--which, as can be seen, was, perhaps, maybe,
I think (hope), somewhat pleasing.
But with a graphic program I was able to change
it so much that one would hardly guess the finished produce could have
been such a crudely done, incomplete "picture".
Now you will be able to see
what it looked like after some dramatic changes were put into effect. I
cropped it down a bit, and when this was centered as a desktop if offered
plenty of room to place the desktop shortcut icons.
I, personally, have a thing
about icons cluttering up the desktop and if I can, in any way possible,
have them placed in a matter that is easy to get to them, I'll move the
icons elsewhere. In Windows98 one can just place them on the TaskBar--real
neat. Then there are programs like AppBar, which are really nice, because
the bar hides on the upper top portion of the screen, and pops down when
you move your mouse to that part of the screen. I used the Win98 ability
to "stretch" this desktop graphic file, which was a bit smaller than necessary
to totally fit the desktop.
As can be seen by the following picture, the original version which was actually used for the desktop (though stretched), would have made it possible to line the icons in a space below the picture.
The following is what the desk top actually looked like once "stretched" to fill the screen. My personal desire to keep the desktop free to see the backround without a lot of scatterned icons might seem a bit crazy. But...oh, well, who cares?
A minor note of somewhat limited interest.
With this final version of the desktop we have the icons floating down at the bottom, in what I consider the "ocean" surrounding the apparent landmass showned above. To me, this is the coastline of the land of Haldolen, which existed 32,000 years ago in the Pacific Ocean. How big it was, no one, today, knows. Assuming it actually did exist. Put some believe, as can be attested to by a mere casual reading of the book "Swordmen of Vistar" by Charles Nuetzel (long out of print). In any case, this land, this ancient civilization, is where I got the name for my Pc and my webpages.
As one can see from the following pictures, I created a few alternatives, some are without any typed copy on them, and a few had "title" material. Most of these could have been used as desktops
