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Posted in Flags in the News on Feb 6th, 2008
More than 3,000 Texas state Boy Scouts converged on the State Capitol and grounds in Austin on February 2 for their annual meeting with the Governor. The fifty-eighth annual event’s theme was Community Service and their meeting with Eagle Scout Rick Perry (also known as the Governor) went very well. The Austin American-Statesman has some [...]
Posted in Information on Feb 5th, 2008
It’s time to get out the vote! That’s right, the new Texas license plate designs are on display and you have until noon, February 11, 2008 to register your opinion by voting. Deborah voted for Natural Texas and I voted for Lone Star.
Follow the story link directly to the voting page.
Texas License Plates
Voting Timeframe
Voting begins [...]
Posted in Flags in the News on Feb 4th, 2008
Over the past year, many states changed their license tag designs, using the state’s population to choose the winner. Now Texas is changing its licenses plates and we have One Week to vote for which tag we like best. The choices include the current tag plus four new designs which TXDot won’t reveal until noon [...]
Posted in Flag Facts on Dec 10th, 2007
Deborah and I were running errands Saturday morning, and darned if a parade didn’t break out in downtown Sattler, Texas (population 30). To be fair, the Canyon Lake area has a population of 29,000 people.
As with all parades, there were flags everywhere, so I got busy taking pictures with my cell phone (I could have [...]
Posted in Information on Nov 30th, 2007
I wanted to share a few of the courthouse photos that I shot over the Thanksgiving weekend. We traveled 500 miles, coming back from the Texas panhandle, and I photographed seven courthouses that were situated right next the the road we traveled.
I tried to get the flagpole and flags in each shot, but it [...]
Posted in Flag Photos on Nov 27th, 2007
Aspermont’s large flag flies from their water tower in the center of town.
Over the Thanksgiving weekend, Deborah and I headed north to the Texas Panhandle (Deborah’s note: um … that’s the square part of the state and proud of it). The five-hundred mile trip takes about eight hours with plenty of photo opportunities along the [...]
Posted in Flags in the News on Nov 23rd, 2007
Do you like stories about veterans? I do.
Japanese kamikazi pilots tried their best to cripple the U.S. Naval fleet, but many ships survived. Wayne Hicks shares his story and the flag he saved after the Battle of Okinawa.
Veteran saved flag that was almost cut in half by kamikaze plane in Battle of Okinawa | [...]
Posted in Information on Nov 13th, 2007
Some U.S. State flags are symmetrical and some are almost symmetrical. With a symmetrical flag, there is no top or bottom, you just fly the flag. However, the flags that are almost symmetrical can give you fits, if you are careless and don’t pay attention to which way is up.
In this article I want to [...]
Posted in Flags in the News on Nov 9th, 2007
It’s an All-American line up today. What great news stories!
Myers doesn’t want to be called a hero, but I think I’ll risk it. Tomorrow is the 232nd birthday of the Marine Corp and Francis Myers is the epitome of the WWII Marine. In battle at 19, the now 85 year old is still a Marine, [...]
Posted in History on Nov 6th, 2007
Have you ever heard of Brandenburg, Texas? How about New Brandenburg? No?
That’s because the town’s name changed a long time ago—at the beginning of World War I, in fact. The German settlers in this tiny little West Texas town wanted the nation to know that they were proud to be citizens of the United [...]
