Desktop image (i had on mavericks osx 10.9.5) is not there in yosemite

Hello
I recently upgraded to yosemite. (fresh install)
and the desktop image i had in mavericks 10.9.5 is no longer there.
I am on a macbook pro.
Are they stored somewhere on line, that i can grab the one i liked? I prefer my old one to all the new ones in yosemite, and i did not know how to back that image up, so its gone from my harddrive.  I dont have a backup of my mavericks osx.
thankyou for your help.

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