GARDEN FLAGS

 Marcia Norwood
America's STORYTELLER
Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking

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F L A G 

Noun 


A piece of cloth,
     usually rectangular,
               of distinctive color and design,
                    used as a symbol,
                                          standard,
                                                  signal, or
                                                       emblem.

  

Garden Flag in My Front Yard:  Copyright 2010 Marcia Norwood

Garden flags add beauty and color in the garden.  

The bracket that holds the flagpole is simple to install with a screwdriver or cordless drill.  

My Side Yard Copyright 2010 Marcia Norwood

I shop for garden flags/banners at nurseries,  garden centers, department stores and online. 

One of my favorite online shops is Flag Fables.

http://www.flagfables.com/

This is one of my favorite Flag Fable designs for AUTUMN.         http://www.flagfables.com/

One garden flag just isn't enough at my house. 

My husband once asked:  "Why so many flags?  What do you think this is - the United Nations?"

Maybe. 

Garden Flag in My Front Yard:  Copyright 2013 Marcia Norwood

 
Whether you are for or against US involvement in the United Nations* - you gotta love the flags!!!  

(*Check out my personal NOTE at the end of this blog about my experience at the United Nations.)

 Click on these links:

http://www.flags.net/UNNA.htm

 

 www.united-states-flag.com
 

It's fun to change my garden flags for holidays, seasons, and family celebrations.

Front Yard Flag:  Copyright 2010 Marcia Norwood

Front Yard Flag:  Copyright 2010 Marcia Norwood

Front Yard Flag:  Copyright 2010 Marcia Norwood

  

Front Yard Flag:  Copyright 2010 Marcia Norwood

Front Yard Flag:  Copyright 2010 Marcia Norwood

  
I  featured a photograph of one of my garden flags on a STORYTELLER greeting card.

STORYTELLER Greeting Card:  Copyright 2010 Marcia Norwood

Flag on Back Deck: Copyright 2010 Marcia Norwood

Pirate Flag at Garden Center:  Copyright 2012 Marcia Norwood

Flags of  Holland Provinces in Pella, Iowa:  Copyright 2013 Marcia Norwood

Flag in  My Friend, Tammy's Garden:  Copyright 2010 Marcia Norwood

Flag on our Trellis:  Copyright 2010 Marcia Norwood

How many flags wave in your garden?

Flag Amid Butterfly Bushes:  Copyright 2012 Marcia Norwood

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*Personal NOTE:  
 I was chosen to be a delegate from Missouri - the summer of my Junior year in high school - to study and learn about the United Nations in person.  

My father was a member of the Order of Odd Fellows in Liberty, Missouri.  I was required to write an essay and give a speech to be considered, and was chosen (along with my friend, Irene) to be a part of the  UN Pilgrimage for Youth.    

Our three week bus tour (with other Missouri delegates)  in the summer of 1966, took in several states and historic sites; two days in Washington, DC; and one week in New York.


Our bus filled with high school students from Missouri met up with 500 other students representing various states.  We met together in New York.  We had our own version of politics as states lobbied for their delegates to be on the student government board that presided over our New York meetings.  

Missouri delegates were asked to cast their votes for a certain president, and they offered to back one of us for Song Leader.  Somehow - in one swift political move - I moved to the head of the table at the Plaza Hotel (or was it the Waldorf Astoria?) as Song Leader.  

Once I was asked to sing a solo when we visited a home for international students.  My singing voice was not pleasant after years of cheerleading - but I know how to entertain a crowd.  

I  led the entire delegation and international students in one of our Liberty Bluejay chants:

1966 Liberty Bluejay Cheerleaders:  Marcia is second from the right...helping hold the flyer.

  Flea

   Flea (repeat)

Flea fly (repeat)

Flea fly flow (repeat)

Feasta (repeat)

Cooma lotta cooma lotta cooma lotta feasta (repeat)

Oh no, no, no, not the feasta (repeat)

Eany meany desa-meany  Ooh-wallah wallah meany (repeat)

X -a  meany sala meany Oh-wallah wall (repeat)

Bo bo ski-watin-datin wa datin chow.
Beat belly ot-in dotain bo-bo be deat-in dot in
Choo - Choo- - Choo Choo Choo Choo! (repeat)

We  had FUN - along with exchanging views on education, politics and religion.  We toured the United Nations - and  had behind-the-scenes briefings conducted by specialized United Nations agencies and departments including Ambassadors, Minister Counselors and Country Representatives. 
    
The Odd Fellows and Rebekahs United Nations Pilgrimage for Youth  program is gaining  public attention in the United States, Canada and abroad. The National Association of Secondary School Principals  placed this program on the advisory List of National Contests and Activities.

The educational program was established by the Sovereign Grand Lodge Independence Order of Odd Fellows in 1949, when the United Nations was just four years old.  High School students from around the world are invited to study and learn about the United Nations.

Read more:

http://unpilgrimage.org/UNP_Program/UNP_PgmOverview.html

Copyright 2010 Marcia Norwood