Hurray! Your June 2023 wallpaper/calendar is (finally!) ready to download!
It’s June… the month of strawberries. So of course I need to feature them. I’ve been growing strawberries for the past several years… beginning first with a single pot of them on my apartment balcony, and then roughly 8 years ago advancing to a crate about 1 foot square, and nowadays I have 2 raised wooden beds that provide about 8 square feet of growing space. (I love that these beds are about waist high, so I don’t have to get down to ground level to tend to the plants or pick ’em.) I used to know what varieties I had, but they’ve… shall we say “intermingled” over the years, and now they’re “just strawberries”. Some are June-bearing, but most of them bloom intermittently throughout the growing season (except for during the hottest months, when it’s mostly all about just trying to keep them alive in the blazing afternoon heat).
Did you know that what we refer to as “a strawberry” is actually what is known as an “aggregate fruit”? That basically means that each little, tiny section is a single fruit. According to the dictionary definition, an aggregate fruit is “a fruit formed from several carpels derived from the same flower”. Some other, more obvious examples of aggregate fruits include raspberries and blackberries. The sections of those aggregate fruits are easier to observe, although in all these cases, the multiple parts fuse together around a common “receptacle”.
Each of the average 200 “seeds” visible on the outside of a strawberry are actually the plant’s ovaries, which are called “achenes”. And each “achene” holds a seed within it. But in spite of all those “seeds” contained on a single berry, we don’t usually plant strawberries from seed anyway, but rather from “daughter plants” that grow on runners the “mother plant” produces. (This is how I’ve grown my collection of strawberries over the years; I anchor the daughter plants into the soil right before winter hits and let them develop roots over the winter and into the early spring. So they’re ready to get growing when the weather finally warms up.)
And here’s something else that may be surprising to many: a “serving” of strawberries has more Vitamin C than an orange!
My monthly desktop wallpaper & calendar offers you a pretty seasonal picture to customize and brighten your computer monitor. But that’s not all. It also includes a handy monthly calendar, and you’ll find my web address listed at the bottom. (Note that the address isn’t clickable; you’ll have to type it into your browser). This monthly wallpaper design is FREE to download and install, so please don’t hesitate to share this page with your friends and family.
How to download & install your June 2023 Wallpaper/Calendar
Note: You’ll probably want to consult your own computer operating system’s installation instructions, but installing the background image on my Windows 10 system took just 3 quick steps – and less than a minute. It’s super-duper easy-peasy! (Windows 11 seems to work pretty much the same way, as well.)
Here’s how you can (probably) do it, too.
- Decide which version you’d like to download. (For newer, larger monitors, you’ll probably prefer the higher-res version.) If you’d like to download the higher-res version of this wallpaper/calendar, left-click here and this month’s image should open. (It might take a few moments to fully appear.) Locate and select the download option (probably somewhere near the upper-left of your screen) and save the image to your computer, renaming it as you wish. OR… if you’d prefer the standard-resolution version, left-click here to open the image. Then right-click on the image and save it to your computer, renaming it as appropriate.
- Once the file has been downloaded, named, and saved, click on your saved image to open it.
- Once open, right-click on the image and select “Set as” > “Set as Background”….. then right-click on the image again and select “Set as” > “Set as Lock screen”. And poof! That’s all there is to it! (For convenience, I recommend you install this on both your desktop system and your laptop. Assuming you still have such things these days, of course!)
Tips for other operating systems:
And in case you may have an operating system OTHER than Windows 10 (or 11), you may find these installation tips helpful:
Finally, please keep in mind that the format of my monthly image is designed for most modern-day 16:9 monitors (a common format for monitors and HD TV’s since about 2009), oriented in landscape format. (If your monitor displays 1920 x 1080 pixels, or 2560 x 1440 pixels, it should work fine.) If you’re working with an older monitor (and/or one that’s more square-ish in format), or your monitor is set up in portrait format or some other variation, the picture will likely not work for you. And unfortunately, I am unable to trouble-shoot individual systems’ incompatibility challenges. Sorry!
