One More Flag Picture (Promise!!)

Today (January 16th) is the birthday of Peter's brother, Rick. He was born and lives in California, and their father was originally from Russia, so we're flying the American, Russian and California flags today. This posed a small problem with protocol. The period for flying the US flag a half-mast for President Ford is still in effect (30 days after his death). However, it's bad form to fly a foreign nation's flag a half-mast unless that nation has officially decided to do so. (The US did this when Pope John Paul II died). It's *also* bad form to fly another nation's flag higher than the US flag! The best solution was to fly all of them at full mast. This was good, actually, because the wind was from the north today. The house faces south, and tends to block north winds from flags that aren't all the way up.