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Texas Agriculture Archive

July 4, 2003

It get's tougher every year. Talented Farm Bureau members see a different world through their camera lens, and the results were a bushel of great pictures. Every picture entered was a winner, but taking home the prize money were:

•1st Place—Lori Falcon took this picture of her son, Tyler, putting on his spurs at the Old Farm Camp on the Fulton Quien Sabe Ranch. Mom says Tyler, in his words, was "gonna ride the rough off him!"

•2nd Place—Jill Bramlet, age 11, of Lockney, took this picture of her dad and brother—with lunchbox and water jug in hand—as they go off for a day of plowing.

•Honorable Mention: We've heard of the Cat in the Hat, but Cat in the Mailbox? This photo submitted by Debra Evans of Gustine featured her cat, Bun E., posing on a mailbox decorated by a member of her church.

•Honorable Mention: Debbie Hubenak of Rosenberg photographed this still life of flowers and wagon wheel.

Just Good Pictures!

There's no prize money awarded but we wanted to recognize a number of other excellent photos from Texas Farm Bureau members. This is just a small sample of efforts from many talented photographers.

Be sure to enter again next year. Look for details in the January Texas Agriculture.

Cathi Gillette of Crockett took this picture of daughter Dorcie and her "birthday puppy" on the porch of one of the houses on the family ranch at Lovelady.

The human kid, Samantha Smith, dances with an orphan goat kid, Annie, in this photo submitted by Samuel Smith of Stonewall.

This "rootin'-tootin' three-and-a-half year old cowboy from Cost prepares for a long day's work on the range, in this photo submitted by Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Johnson.

If a bird in hand is worth two in the bush, are two birds in hand worth four in the bush? Granddaughter Jourdan Taylor Mead demonstrates that concept in this photo submitted by grandma and grandpa, Glenn and Charlene McCarty of China Grove.

Uncle Danny Evans passes on a ranching legacy to his nephew, Tyler Evans, as they eartag a calf on this fifth generation ranch in Howard County. The photo was submitted by Lanell Overton Evans of Big Spring.