So there I was, just driving back to the gym on a rainy Monday morning, and ended up at a stop light herer in beautiful suburban Duncanville, Texas, behind a car with heraldry on its license plate.
I thought the arms looked somewhat familiar, but not having a whole lot of time to think it all through (the traffic lights at that intersection cycle through pretty quickly, so there's not much time to waste there), I quickly grabbed my phone and grabbed a photograph before the light changed.
Looking at it on my computer later, I felt almost certain that I had seen that coat of arms before.
The arms are, of course, those of the sorority Delta Sigma Theta.
Taking that identification and looking through my files (I keep a folder on my PC that contains pictures of heraldry that I have taken and identified over the years, making it much easier to see if indeed I have seen a particular coat of arms before, whether in the same or a different location), wouldn't you know? I had seen them before, on a different car, in a different (but nearby) city, Cedar Hill, Texas.
You can see what I had to say about that particular find in my post on this blog dated May 28, 2025, found here: http://blog.appletonstudios.com/2025/05/heraldry-in-wild.html
All in all, an interesting coincidence, that I would see the arms of this sorority on two different cars in two different cities on two different dates.
But I am most grateful that we now own phones that take pictures, so that when we're waiting at a stoplight and see a piece of heraldry, we can grab a shot of it before the light changes and we all have to drive off.
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