Wicker fields in Cañamares, Spain Dec 12, 2021

The summer swaths of green in this field have transformed by wintertime to a harvest-ready red—but it"s not a harvest you can eat. Just what"s being grown here?

© David Santiago Garcia/Alamy

palette

Today in History

Dec 12, 2018The story of the poinsettia
Dec 12, 2019On the lookout for Sheep-Cote Clod
Dec 12, 2020What are we looking at?
Dec 12, 2022Poinsettia Day
Dec 12, 2023Poinsettia Day
Dec 12, 2024Poinsettia Day
Dec 12, 2025National Poinsettia Day

More Desktop Wallpapers:

Oct 23, 2023Corn maze in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania
Apr 16, 2023Go Fly a Kite Day
Nov 30, 2022Old Town of Rovinj, Croatia
Aug 5, 2020Aw shucks, It s Oyster Day
Jan 23, 2025Sundance Film Festival
Nov 5, 2019Balloons and camels are two ways to catch a ride here
Mar 30, 2019Here’s why landmarks are going dark
Mar 7, 2018Chapel of St. Michel on Lake Serre-Ponçon, Hautes-Alpes, France
Mar 2, 2021Fall for Chile
Apr 14, 2021Nothing plain about it
Sep 9, 2022Belize Barrier Reef
Dec 7, 2021Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
Dec 23, 2022Gentoo penguins in Antarctica
Nov 11, 2021Veterans Day
Aug 16, 2023Overseas Highway, Florida Keys
Jan 14, 2023Feast of the Donkey
Aug 1, 2019Hawaii Volcanoes National Park turns 103
May 20, 2019The island fox’s incredible comeback
Jun 22, 2023World Rainforest Day
Jun 6, 2019Engineering an artificial harbor in Normandy
Dec 5, 2021Salzburg, Austria
Dec 28, 2019Did they forget to fly south?
Oct 9, 2020Falling for Tennessee
Jan 20, 2020A march toward a dream
Aug 17, 2020A giant relic in Java
Feb 19, 2024Presidents Day
Apr 20, 2025Happy Easter!
Jan 4, 2024Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California
Jul 30, 2018Children at play for International Day of Friendship
May 12, 2025An iris garden in Tokyo, Japan