I heard back from my tartan designing friend and she thinks my design is solid but a bit drab . She likes the ideas suggesting referencing more colorful symbols of New York. She's going to come up with some suggestions and send some along. She lives in Alberta but she has spent a lot of time in Kingston and the Eastern Ontario area so she's familiar with what this part of the world looks like. She also thinks we ought to select a few (several?) designs so the legislators have a choice and they feel like they're actually taking part in the process and making a decision. The way she put it is that it's like a storekeeper offering you a choice between a red computer and a blue computer when you're not even sure you want a computer at all. Sounds like a good idea to me.

I'm back to the drawing board. Let's see if we can come up with a few variations on a theme and see what happens.