Just in time for Memorial Day...

Just in time for Memorial Day ... my crafty mom has finished a project she's been wanting to do for a long time: making a U.S. flag from some very old fence pickets.  You can see it at right, hung over the front of her home near Charlottesville, VA.  Gorgeous, isn't it?

For my history-challenged readers, that flag design is a Betsy Ross flag – the original design of the U.S. revolutionary flag.  There are 13 stars arranged in a circle; each star represents one of the original 13 U.S. colonies.