I wish it well

Lots. More than a flag by someone who knows nothing about the state Lolol

Guye Peak is the best part of the drive. My husband does it daily, and it is lovely in summer when he can see it in the mornings.

I didn't know about that one. It looks good. What momentum does it have?

>I'd be curious to see what r/vexillology's take would be

I posted the design there first and it got a favorable response. But that didn't tell whether the people of WA would connect with it.

>Do the stars/stripes have any other meaning? Or are we cool with a rotated and recolored coat of arms as our state flag? It's a little lazy, imo.

I don't what meaning, if any, the stars and stripes had for the Washington family, but as far as my design is concerned they are solely to signify Washington the person. It's a fairly standard approach in heraldry/vexillology for a place or institution to incorporate or adapt the arms of someone connected with it. The bigger question of course is whether signifying their namesake is something that the people of WA still want their flag to do.

I’ll be up there skiing this afternoon! Bluebird!!! Yyyeeehhhoooooo

What this person said, entirely. This is a great area (I’m in Woodland, same vibe), yeah it’s a little overly right wing, but it’s also a place that people bend over backwards to help their neighbors. It’s not perfect but it’s pretty close to paradise if you like the outdoors.

+1 for Weyerhaeuser St Helens Unit drive in pass or walk in pass. They go up for grabs in May. It’s like 300,000 acres of wildland access. You drive out into it for a bit and get up on high ground and you literally can’t see a building in any direction. Good times.

Ya I can speak for the entire state of Washington, unironically, that no one gives a fuck about George Washington.

I'm not worked up by it enough to want to change it. We have greater issues here.

Washingtonians don't generally say Wicked Awesome

Cascadia Flag is noice!

This needs to happen already.

I’ll pass, thanks anyway.

What has drawn you to Shelton?

I worked there for about a month and lived in a motel. While there I witnessed people cooking meth in the room down from me, lots of heroin addicts, and a brutal domestic violence incident in the room next to me. Would not recommend.

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This is the best I’ve seen: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f6/37/c4/f637c43595d06a82a707c43bcfb1aa28.jpg

The latter for me, we got Washington because Columbia was already taken for the nation's Capitol.

I'd like to see something referencing our geography over our namesake.

Thanks. I was starting from the basis of keeping to the current flag's intention of representing the person, but doing so less literally than a portrait of him. But perhaps a redesign needs to go beyond that idea, as you suggest.

Climbed both Guye Peak in the foreground, and the actual Mt Snoqualmie in the background, years ago. Mt Snoqualmie is about 7,500 feet, it is the highest peak at Snoqualmie Pass. From the far side of the summit of Mt Snoqualmie is a 700' dropoff that looks out over all the Alpine Lakes Wilderness Area. Stunning!

In the hanging valley between Guye Peak and Mt Snoqualmie are a number of limestone caves. Very vertical and quite dangerous, only for cave experts. But interesting that they are there.

No worries! It was named by Congress at statehood, but Washington never got within 2,000 miles of the state. If you're looking for inspiration, I would look at:

the Cascadia flag

Mt Rainier/Tahoma

Pacific Northwest art

Is that because the stars and bars don't say George Washington to you, or because you don't feel there's a strong connection between him and the state, beyond lending his name?

Thanks for the feedback. Being from somewhat out of state, I lack the inside knowledge on whether folks feel a strong connection to the person the state is named for.

It looks fine, but George Washington has basically nothing to do with the state, and Washington DC's flag is already based on its coat of arms. I would agree that WA's flag sucks, but any update is not going to have anything to do with this.

As long as there are no apples, it's good