FOCUS ON TEXAS

Daredevils
By Ashley Clary

Caution: These photos are not for the faint of heart! Plenty of you out there delight in all kinds of different thrills … and a few spills! Thanks for sharing your heart-stopping adventures with us.

Bowie-Cass Electric Cooperative member Jessika Haworth sent us this photo of her son Elliott Sunshine at the Pioneer Days Festival in New Boston. “No matter how big or small you are, there’s always room for daring fun in Texas,” she says.

South Plains Electric Cooperative member Don Carpenter sent us this photo he took of Chase Butler, a competitor giving it his all at Rip Tide’s annual wakeboard competition at Buffalo Springs Lake in Lubbock.

This is what Dalton Wharton (jumping) and his friends Ben Patty (lying down) and Preston Wenger (holding sign) decided was the best cure for boredom at a garage sale in Buda. Dalton’s parents, Becky and Bert Wharton, are members of Pedernales Electric Cooperative.

Kara Kleimann sent us this shot of family friend Cody Valenta executing a daring back flip from a rock cliff into the Medina River. The Kleimann and Valenta families are both members of San Bernard Electric Cooperative.

The aptly named Skye, a West Highland terrier owned by Central Texas Electric Cooperative members Ray and Mary Ellen Walls, is a daredevil when it comes to chasing squirrels up trees. “A fence had to be erected around this live oak when she fell about 15 feet to the ground,” says Mary Ellen.

 
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SNOW DAZE is the topic for our JANUARY 2010 issue. Send your photo—along with your name, address, daytime phone, co-op affiliation and a brief description—Roughin’ It, Focus on Texas, 1122 Colorado St., 24th Floor, Austin, TX 78701, before NOVEMBER 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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