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Wallpapers

celebrations (other than Winterfest), seasonal and special moments

Wallpapers …

Beyond the graphics created specifically for the Great Hall of WFOL, I’ve made several seasonal and anniversary wallpapers. Many of these were main page decorations at my original Imagine That site. Clicking on each image will fully display it.

You’re welcome to download these to use on your desktop. They’re designed for widescreen monitors.

A park bench in Central Park with a dedication plate affixed. Text reads: April 12th, I found hope again that night, I found you

Catherine and Vincent together in Times Square on New Year's Eve. Behind them the ball has dropped. They're super-smiling at each other!

Winter Holiday wallpaper 2020. C and V in Central Park, Vincent holds a sprig of mistletoe as people walk past. Text excerpted from John O'Donohue, For Presence: Awaken to the mystery of being here and enter the quiet immensity of your presence. Have joy and peace in the temple of your senses. Respond to the call of your gift and find the courage to follow its path. May warmth of heart keep your presence aflame. May anxiety never linger about you. Take time to celebrate the quiet miracles that seek no attention. Be consoled in the secret symmetry of your soul. May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder.

Vincent and Catherine in Central Park, smiling at each other. Catherine holds a wrapped gift with a bow. Santa is sitting on a bench behind them, a full sack at his feet. Text reads: Once you choose hope, anything is possible

Catherine and Vincent on her balcony, gazing out on the city, his arm around her waist. In the sky, Santa and his sleigh fly by. Text reads: Believe

Wallpaper - C & V in a close embrace beneath an arch in the park. Beyond the arch, it's snowing. Text reads:Now Winter nights enlarge the number of their hours. Thomas Campion

A snowy day in Central park, a heart shape has been trudged in the snow and the initials C + V drawn in the center. Text reads: For when the cold winds blow, I will close my eyes calmly, knowing I am anchored to you. Tyler Knott Gregson

Catherine and Vincent walking in Central Park on a showy day. Text reads: Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go - It is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow. Alice M. Swain.

The silhouette of Vincent and Catherine walking away, carved into a Halloween pumpkin. The text reads: There is no darkness.

Happy Hallowe'en! Vincent and Catherine have found a display spot for their pumpkin carved in the image of Kristopher's painting. They've left it in Central Park and are walking away, heads held high on this night of all nights.

Catherine and Vincent in their Halloween finery, walking the streets of New York. V and C are close to a kiss. Text reads: Surely on this night of all nights

BatB-themed Halloween pumpkins: rose, NYC skyline, V & C

Halloween wallpaper, Catherine and Vincent walking on the sidewalk having left their city above home. Text reads: I had a dream, which was not all a dream.

Vincent and Catherine in the sunshine. Text reads: Better than a dream. 35 years ago ... tonight.

Vincent and Catherine walking together in the sunshine. Text reads: How I want to know that sun, and how I want to flower. How I want to claim my happiness and walk through life inarticulate with thanks. Paraphrase, David Whyte, The Sun

The scene in V's chamber, at the end of A Kingdom By The Sea. Text reads: "There's no one even at the lake this time of year." Vincent has a slight smile on his face. Text further reads: Those who wish to sing always find a song. Quotation from Plato

Catherine and Vincent at her threshold, the first time. Text reads: My refuge, my haven in the storm, my sanctuary

An image of Catherine and Vincent in the fall of the year. Catherine looking pensively down, Vincent looking pensively into the distance. Text reads: Always you I was looking for in all those faces

Vincent and Catherine kissing! standing in the threshold beneath her building. Text reads: To want to make a fire with someone, with you, was all. Katie Ford.

April 12th celebrations. Catherine and Vincent gazing into each other's eyes. Text reads: Then ... as now

Vincent looking over at Catherine. Text reads: What you see in me in the beauty in your heart.

September 25, 2019 anniversary wallpaper: Vincent & Catherine in their initial parting moment. Text reads: Love comes when you are ready, love comes when you're afraid. Give yourself to love. lyrics by Kate Wolf.

Catherine and Vincent in Central Park in winter. Catherine holds a Winterfest candle. Text reads: There is a candle in your heart waiting to be kindled. You feel it, don't you? Rumi

Catherine looking down into an open grate in the street, Vincent is taking handfuls of Winterfest candles from someone handing them up below. Text reads: Delivery Day.

A bench in a deep snow in Central Park, a red rose on the seat. Text reads: A marvel and a secret ... Be it so. Lord Byron

Vincent and Catherine in an embrace in Central Park. The spring leaves and flowers are just starting up in the landscape. Text reads: All Winters End

April 12th celebration. Vincent and Catherine in an embrace on her candlelit balcony. Text reads: April 12th. Love is all you need.

C & V in the park at night below a hillside standing together in front of a park bench

Catherine and Vincent in an embrace. In the background a shadowy remembrance of Vincent saving Catherine in the park. Text reads: It's a time of celebration. I found hope again that night.

April 12th celebration. Catherine lighting candles on her balcony, Vincent gazing longingly into the distance. Text reads: April 12th - Catherine's balcony.

Vincent and Catherine dancing, Catherine in a low-backed blue dress. Text reads: Let your courage serves as an inspration to all who climb the highest mountains and crosse the greatest rivers in love's name.

Vincent and Catherine having a picnic in Central Park in the spring when the magnolias are in bloom. Text reads: Spring comes on the world. I sight the Aprils, hueless to me until thoug come. Emily Dickinson

Vincent and Catherine gazing into each other eye's in the light of a streetlamp near a bridge in Central Park. Text reads: I dwell in possibility. Emily Dickinson

Catherine and Vincent in Central Park amidst a stand of black eyed susans, the bridge in Central Park in the background. An excerpt from a poem by Nikki Giovanni

Autumn walk in Central Park. Catherine looking up at Vincent in the lamplight. Text reads: Gently the dark comes down over the wild, fair places, the whispering glens in the hills, the open, starry spaces; Rich with the gifts of the night, sated and questing and dreaming, we turn to the dearest of paths, where the star of the homelight is gleaming. Lucy Maud Montgomery

Vincent and Catherine with wondrous expressions in the sunshine. Text reads: Carry the light.

Vincent and Catherine gazing out at "the lake". Text reads: Hold Fast to Dreams

Vincent and Catherine arm in arm at the edge of the Central Park lake. Text reads: May you never place walls between the light and yourself. John O'Donohue

Vincent standing in a crosswalk of tunnel directions, a map of NYC superimposed on the rock walls. Text reads: The Ways Change.

Father and a young girl child, Father explaining something. Text reads: I always called him Father

a stylized graphic of Vincent standing outside the tunnel entrance. Text reads: Come below tonight.

A valentine's heart and two red roses. Text reads: Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward. ee cummings.

Photoshops and Montages …

These are smaller than wallpaper-sized graphics, ranging in theme – seasonal to just-because. Plus, I’ve managed a few shirtless Vincents. A new window will open to that gallery when you click on the dressing room image. 😀

Vincent holding a lantern before him. Text reads: Searching for Treasure Hunters

VINCENT … UNBUTTONED

shirtless in the tunnels

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LOVE … BECAUSE OF IT

Catherine and Vincent … together

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(a good deal more – be aware!)

Stained Glass …

SandyX and I took a glass class together a few years ago. I’m hooked! It’s so much fun. I’m still a beginner, but I’ve finished a few BatB-inspired projects that I’ll share here. Hopefully, I’ll be adding to the gallery soon.

three lit Winterfest candles, white, yellow, and reddish orange

stained glass hanging - the tunnel entrance lit from within

A votive candle holder designed with cavern crystals

stained glass candle landscape - the tunnel entrance and behind it the high rises of the city

A circular stained glass suncatcher - Vincent's face

stained glass sun catcher, image of a book with a rose charm on the spine

V/C stained glass red and white rose and heart

A stained glass panel, a BatB-inspired rose in the MacIntosh rose style.

A pink rose with gray and clear textured glass

Drawings …

I’ve always said I can’t draw, but the truth is … I’ve never tried, and so, as Catherine put it, I don’t really know what my limits are. Why not start with a Vincent portrait, I challenged myself, and post it for Winterfest? I gave it a brave go, submitting the results to The Ways Change – Outside Your Comfort Zone project of 2017 to, ummm, mixed reviews. Afterward, I bought a how-to book and started in on the lessons. (My snail and my parrot were pretty good!) I haven’t yet produced another Vincent and haven’t even attempted a Catherine, but I did give Father a try for WFOL 2018.

I’ll share my most passable tries here. Doing so is a prime example of ‘facing one’s fears’ – believe me, my fears are large! And loud! But I know these tunnels are a safe haven for my dreams, and I have to believe anything is possible.