FOCUS ON TEXAS

Sisters
By Ashley Clary

“She is your mirror, shining back at you with a world of possibilities. She is your witness, who sees you at your worst and best, and loves you anyway. She is your partner in crime, your midnight companion, someone who knows when you are smiling, even in the dark. She is your teacher, your defense attorney, your personal press agent, even your shrink. Some days, she’s the reason you wish you were an only child.”

— Barbara Alpert, author

Thank you for sending us more than 200 wonderful pictures depicting love, life and happiness. We hope you enjoy these as much as we did.

Three-year-old Audrey, left, and 5-year-old Kara Curtis, didn’t mind one bit sharing this frozen rainbow treat from the ice cream truck. Thank you to their mom and CoServ Electric member Nicole Curtis for sending this picture and reminding us of childhood’s simple pleasures.

Sisters Betty Zorn, left, and the late Estelle Thibodeaux had some fun dressing up for the holidays. “This was taken Christmas 2001,” said Zorn, a member of San Bernard Electric Cooperative. “What a great sister Estelle was. I miss her very much.”

 “Mackenzie and Hailey very rarely fight, but trying to take pictures with the new kitty showed a different side of both girls,” South Plains Electric Cooperative member Paige Bowman says of her 5-year-old and 23-month-old daughters. “They both wanted to be the one to hold the kitty, and little sis was not about to back down.”

Kelly, left, and Rebecca Keith, daughters of CoServ Electric members Dean and Kathy Keith, said they really enjoyed feeling the grapes squish between their toes during a visit to Becker Vineyards in the Hill Country.

San Bernard Electric Cooperative member Lyndell Aschenbeck, right, supplied this photo of herself and her sisters Kay Sander, left, and Barbara Leonard taken on a family vacation in Freeport. “My daughter took the photo as we were enjoying the sun and sand,” she said.

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COWGIRLS is the topic for our OCTOBER 2009 issue. Send your photo—along with your name, address, daytime phone, co-op affiliation and a brief description—Cowgirls, Focus on Texas, 1122 Colorado St., 24th Floor, Austin, TX 78701, before AUGUST 10. A stamped, self-addressed envelope must be included if you want your entry returned (approximately six weeks). Please do not submit irreplaceable photographs—send a copy or duplicate. We regret that Texas Co-op Power cannot be responsible for photos that are lost in the mail or not received by the deadline. Please note that we cannot provide individual critiques of submitted photos. If you use a digital camera, e-mail your highest-resolution images to focus@texas-ec.org or submit on our website at www.texascooppower.com. (If you have questions about your camera’s capabilities and settings, please refer to the operating manual.)

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