Delaware Sea Grant College Program
Newark, DE 19716 USA
Phone: 302-831-8083
E-mail: marinecom@udel.edu
Desktop Calendar Wallpapers - September 2010
With the 2010 Delaware Sea Grant and College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment online calendar, you can bring the beauty of Delaware’s coastal resources to your computer screen. In addition to scenic wallpaper for each month, check out the list of notable dates as well as environmental facts, tips, and web links.
Garden Variety
Landscaping can be a challenge along Delaware’s coast, where salt spray, wind, heat, and sandy soils make it difficult for many plants to flourish. Many gardeners are discovering the benefits of using native plants in home landscapes. Native plants require little maintenance and are specifically adapted to the environmental conditions of coastal areas. Not only do they provide important feeding, nesting, and resting habitat for many birds and animals, they are easy also easy to grow, requiring less water, fertilizer, and pesticides than non-native species. The use of native plants, therefore, helps to save time and money while reducing pollution from unnecessary chemicals.
Please do not take plants from the wild to create your garden! Nursery-propagated plants are available for most local native species.
Delaware Sea Grant and its partners established a native plant demonstration garden at the University of Delaware’s Hugh R. Sharp Campus in Lewes. The garden is open for self-guided tours. For directions to the garden or to learn more about native plants, visit the garden web site.
Photo by Wendy Carey
1 – Species Requiem Day
Martha, the world’s last passenger pigeon, died on this day in the Cincinnati Zoo in 1914. See how you can help conserve our valuable natural resources, and keep them from a similar fate.
6 – Labor Day
As crowds of beachgoers thin out, now is the perfect time to go beachcombing along Delaware’s coastal shoreline.
17 – Yom Kippur
“Day of Atonement” in the Jewish faith.
18 – World Water Monitoring Day
Find out how the UD Citizen Monitoring Program helps measure the quality of Delaware’s coastal waters.
23 – Autumnal Equinox — first day of autumn
Signals the end of the summer, when the sun moves across the celestial equator on its journey southward, and nights become as long as days.
25 – National Estuaries Day
The geographic region whose creeks, streams, and rivers drain into the Delaware Bay is larger than the state itself, extending across portions of Delaware, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania.
26 – National Public Lands Day
Learn how to help improve and enhance Delaware’s coastal resources.
30 – Beacon extinguished
In 1924 the Cape Henlopen Light was lit for the last time. The lighthouse later fell victim to beach erosion and crumbled into the Atlantic in 1926. Learn more about the coastal processes that claimed this landmark.
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Miss a month? Go to our 2010 wallpaper download archive.
Download Instructions
Note: Once you have downloaded your wallpaper, you can fine-tune its appearance using your computer's desktop preferences menu (i.e. whether the image is centered, tiled, stretched to fit the screen, etc.).
Step 1.
Click on the link below the image of the month representing the size that you are interested in. This will open the image in its own window.
Step 2 For PC users:
1. Position your cursor over the image.
2. Click the right mouse button.
3. If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer (v. 6.0 or higher), select "Set as Background" from the popup menu.
Step 2 For Mac users:
OSX: Drag the image onto your desktop.
Go to System Preferences and open the "Desktop & Screen Saver" icon.
Under the "Desktop" heading, use the file navigator to add the image to the library.
OS9: Drag the image onto your desktop.
Go to your Control Panel and select "Appearance."
Click "Set desktop" and choose your new image.
