Photos of Texas by Texans

Grimes County Treasurer Phillis Allen took this up-close photo of a friendly looking bee in her backyard in Anderson, using a Nikon D40X SLR with a 18-55 mm zoom lens. “My kids used to catch bees and tie a thread around their head and let them fly,” she said, describing what’s known as a bee kite. “I guess you can find almost anything to do in the country.”

County officials and employees (and anyone else in a Texas county) are encouraged to submit their photos for publication in One Last Look to Jim Lewis, county editor at P.O. Box 2131, Austin, TX 78768. If you want the photos returned, enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope and we will try to get it back to you in a few weeks. Also, our lawyers tell us that we can’t be held responsible for lost photos, so if you really treasure that snapshot, haven a 5x7 inch copy made at your local photo outlet and then send us a quality duplicate.