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Color, Composition and Story Number 14
One of the things I like most about a Blog or a platform like Instagram is that it gives me an opportunity to see scenes that others are experiencing. Photography in my opinion is art and when I find someone who has an artist’s eye to capturing life, it is a pleasure to see what…
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What Flag Is That, October 24, 2020
Just thinking about the Supreme Court. It does make me sad that justice is not blind/impartial. The best and most creative place to find specialty flags is: Flags For Good. http://www.flags for good.com
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What Flag Is That, October 22, 2020
The Virgin Islands of The United States. They are an unincorporated and organized territory of the United States. They are part of the Virgin Islands Archipelago located approximately 40 miles east of Puerto Rico. There are three main islands: St. Croix; St. John and St. Thomas. The islands were previously known as the ‘Dutch West…
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What Flag Is That, October 20, 2020
The flag of the Democratic Socialist Party of America. A red field (traditional color of socialists) with a red rose and a biracial handshake in the middle. The flag, which is the logo of the party, has undergone some changes over their relatively short history. At first it was a red rose held in a…
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Color, Composition and Story number 13
Coming back to our ‘home state’ of Michigan we decided to do some advance ‘leaf peeping’ this fall by going to the Upper Peninsula during peak time. (Here in Michigan it is lovingly called ‘Da UP’. And people who live there are called ‘Yoopers’.) One day we were in Copper Harbor which is on the…
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What Flag Is That, October 16, 2020
The island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies in the Caribbean region. It is just to the east of St Lucia. Barbados. It is the home of the Kalinago people since the 13th century. The word Barbados is translated from a few different languages as: ‘Bearded Ones’. Like so many islands Barbados…
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What Flag is That, October 14, 2020
The ‘true’ flag of the people of Hawaii?? There is much controversy surrounding this flag that has been adopted by the ‘Sovereign People’s Movement’ in the islands. Like so many, not exactly ‘urban myths’, this flag has a number of theories and repeated stories about how it came to be. One prominent idea that is…
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What Flag Is That, October 13, 2020
Considered to be one of the oldest flags in the world: Austria. It is a land locked country in Central Europe with a rich history and an important place in world events for it’s entire existence. The flag has been the representation of the country since 1230. It consists of 3 horizontal bands of red,…
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What Flag Is That, October 12, 2020
In support of Indigenous (Host Nation) Peoples Day: The flag of The American Indian Movement. I do wonder when we as a nation will face real honest history and admit and confess what people who were convinced of ‘manifest destiny’ did to the people who were here in the first place. How can you ‘discover’…
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What Flag Is That, October 9, 2020
The newest state in the Union: Hawaii. It is the only state outside of North America. It consists of 137 volcanic islands in the South Pacific. Hawaii is the 8th smallest state and the 13th most densely populated. It was settled in approximately 124 AD by Polynesians. It was admitted as a state on 08/21/1959.…