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Posted in Flag Photos, History, Scouting on Sep 26th, 2008
A photo reminder of what not to do, on half-staff flag days. Remember, when the U.S. flag is flown at half-staff, all the other flags are lowered to half-staff, too.
The next scheduled half-staff flag day is December 7—National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.
Posted in History on Mar 10th, 2008
Larry and I have have written before about using Google Reader to search for news and stories about flags. Larry has specific search guidelines set up in his reader, and I employ a *different set, but we do overlap in searches for these words: U.S. flag, American flag, Stars and Stripes, Texas flag, and Lone [...]
Posted in Editorial on Mar 10th, 2008
At long last, a little relief. My news reader overfloweth no more … at least not as bad as before the politicians came to Texas.
The Texas primaries were held last week and I’m sure glad they’re finished. The influx of news stories including references to flags saw a significant increase over the last month. [...]
Posted in Editorial on Feb 21st, 2008
Larry wrote yesterday about the Winter Texan Reception, a yearly event hosted by the Canyon Lake Chamber of Commerce.
Canyon Lake, here in the Texas Hill Country, was formed when the Army Corps of Engineers built a massive dam across the beautiful but unpredictable Guadalupe River. The mild winter climate, beautiful lake, and rugged hills [...]
Posted in Editorial on Feb 20th, 2008
Yesterday, Deborah and I spent most of the day at a gathering in Canyon Lake hosted by the Canyon Lake Chamber of Commerce. The event was the annual Winter Texan Reception for our northern neighbors who like winter in our warmer climate. The south Texas hill country is a long-time destination for folks seeking [...]
Posted in Flag Facts on Feb 6th, 2008
Deborah and I made a trip into Austin, Texas this week, and as is our custom, we avidly watched for flag displays along the route of the 70-mile trip. Out of the hundreds of displays we saw, most were absolutely correct. But I do have two ideas to write about, prompted by a particular and [...]
Posted in Uh, Not Exactly on Jan 15th, 2008
Every month I find another website that quotes a list of facts about Texas. Most of the time they quote the same "facts" about Texas picked up from other websites, because the lists are always similar. This morning, I was rummaging through my news reader and found this article, Texas Facts, with a list [...]
Posted in Editorial on Jan 11th, 2008
A few day ago we published a photo of a local elementary school flying the Texas flag upside down. Here’s an update on that story.
As a quick review, the school closed for a two week holiday, leaving the Texas flag flying upside down on their shiny new flag pole. The flagpole has a lock [...]
Posted in Information on Jan 10th, 2008
I spent yesterday in the field, talking to people flying flags in front of their businesses. I thought you might be interested in the results of my non-scientific survey of the current state of the flags flying in this area.
50% need repair (normal mending)
15% need replacing (beyond mending)
2% are missing pieces (out of the [...]
Posted in Flag Photos on Jan 7th, 2008
Some days are better than others as proven by this photograph. Driving by the local elementary school proved quite enlightening with the U.S. and Texas flag flying from the new flagpole.
Deborah and I both took a quick second look to confirm our eyes weren’t playing tricks on us. Do you spot the problem [...]
