Touche, David!  (I kinda like that.)

The arms have been finalized and registered with USHR here (application to be included in the AHS members’ armorial pending). Many thanks to everyone who commented and especially Fr. Byers.

I noted in the USHR cert. that your arms had two leaves to the bean sprout, while your avatar only shows one leaf.  Is that a design variation, or a preference requiring an update of your avatar?

Doug Welsh;62412 wrote:

I noted in the USHR cert. that your arms had two leaves to the bean sprout, while your avatar only shows one leaf.  Is that a design variation, or a preference requiring an update of your avatar?

I believe it’s design variation as the blazon is "leaved".

Doug Welsh;62412 wrote:

I noted in the USHR cert. that your arms had two leaves to the bean sprout, while your avatar only shows one leaf.  Is that a design variation, or a preference requiring an update of your avatar?

The intention is that it is a matter of artistic interpretation.

FWIW the avatar version, with one leaf is more compelling than the more symmetrical but IMO less visually interesting two-leaf version.  (Had I never seen the avatar, I would like the two-leaf version well enough, so I’m not saying its unattractive; merely that IMO the avatar is the better of the two.)

But then they’re your arms, so yours is the vote that counts!