When launching Safari why does my desktop picture change?

This is a strange one. iMac with 10.8.5 and the latest updates.
Set the desktop to "picture 1." When I launch Safari the desktop picture moves to the left and establishes "picture 2" as the background.
Only with Safari. All other apps do not do this.
It is like it is doing "fast user switching" but there is no other user.
Thanks for any suggestions

Took a detour about this but am on site and looked for any pictures in the
~/Library/Safari
None found
Any other suggestions?
Thanks

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