The wallpaper hill is a vineyard againSourced
That green Windows XP hill
was only briefly so bare.
The Bliss wallpaper was photographed in California in 1996 after vineyards had been cleared following a phylloxera infestation. Photographer Charles O'Rear said he did not digitally alter it. Vines later returned, changing the familiar view.
A screen seen worldwide
captured a temporary landscape.
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