Gallery: If Your Photos Aren't Good Enough, You're Not Close Enough
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*Lottye Burns, of Cedar Hill, whose husband, Lewis Burns, grew up in Pelham, walks out of a field of sunflowers after posing for a photograph taken by her husband on Sunday, May 27, 2012. The land owned by Pelham residents is now leased to farmers for crops including cotton and corn. This summer was the first time residents remembered sunflowers being grown there.*
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*The oldest Pelham resident and native, Beatrice "Aunt Bea" Gee Beaty, 95, sits in her kitchen in the trailer she lived in next to her nephew, Frederick Carruthers, shortly before her death in April.*
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*Pastor Tony Kea, of Killeen, has lunch with his family including Micah, 3, left, and Izaiah, 1, at the home of Pelham resident Ted Brackens after the Easter service at Brown Chapel A.M.E Church in Pelham.*
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*Sharmaine Carter attends the 107 year anniversary celebration of Brown Chapel A.M.E Church, one of two operating churches in Pelham. Carter is from Killeen where the pastor of the church comes in from for services every week.*
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*Zaniah Kea, 6, plays with her brother, Jo'vaune Kea, 12, outside the church where their father, Tony Kea, of Killeen, came to lead the service with his mother, Pastor Rosa Kea, for the Easter service at Brown Chapel A.M.E Church in Pelham.*
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*Micah Kea, 3, the son of pastor Tony Kea, of Killeen, Pelham, sticks his tongue out at his friends while Yvonne McNeil-Weaver, a descendant of the Cook family, speaks during the Easter service at Brown Chapel A.M.E Church in Pelham.*
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*The oldest Pelham resident and native, Beatrice "Aunt Bea" Gee Beaty, 95, prays with Pastor of Rosa Kea, right, of Killeen, and her son, Tony Kea, left, during the Easter service at AME Brown Chapel. The next day, an explosion in Aunt Bea's trailer critically injured her and she passed away a week later.*
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*Helen Louise Amison, of Milford, crosses one of two main roads in Pelham after attending the Easter service at Wesley United Methodist Church. Area churches rotate Sunday services.*
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*All related by marriage or blood, Elayne Porter Robinson, from left, Alva Jean Porter, Darlene Holloway and Catherine Porter take care of business during the monthly Pelham Community Activity Committee meeting at the Pelham Community Center on March, 13, 2012.*
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*Catherine Porter holds a historic photo of her husband's family farm in Pelham, at their home in Pelham on August 12, 2012.*
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*Donnie Joe Hightower, the step-son of Pelham native Mallord Parks, entertains himself on a summer day in Pelham on July, 11, 2012.*
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*Pelham native Frederick Carruthers takes down a flag after the Memorial Day activities in Pelham on Sunday, May 27, 2012.*
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*Mayor Julián Castro, holding his daughter, Carina, 3, is surrounded by supporters at the send-off party for his trip to the Democratic National Convention at the St. Paul Community Center in San Antonio on Saturday, Sept. 1, 2012.*
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*Mayor Julián Castro, left, with his brother, Joaquin Castro, look out at the expanse of Time Warner Cable Arena as they are interviewed during preparations for the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, NC on Monday, Sept. 3, 2012.*
