Jenn Whitney

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Performers "Vicki" and "Petya" hang above the crowd suspended by their hair on opening night of the Cole Brothers traveling Circus next to the dog track in Bonita Springs. The circus has three shows a day through Sunday.
   
Chelsie, 6, granddaughter of store owner Larry Harris, entertains herself while her mom packs up the family's gift shop, Reflections in the Plaza on Third, Wednesday afternoon, July 2. The store officially went out of business today afer struggling to stay afloat amidst empty promises from the management company since their first eviction notice a year ago. The family hopes to sell some of the merchandise on Ebay to alleviate their debts.
   
Miguel "Mike" Bustamante lost his wife of 41 years last September, and visits her every day at the San Fernando No. 2 Cemetery as he did on Friday, June 12, 2009, despite the heat and humidity. "I'll be here pleasing her every day like I promised for as long as I can," he explained. "She loved the flag and so do I. To us it was freedom."
     
  
Debbie McVey recently purchased her grandparents' farm in Harrisburg, IL. She often picks wildflowers on the property with her second cousin, Leanna Harris, 87, who still lives just down the road.
   
At Clyde Butcher's Annual Swamp Walk at Big Cypress Gallery, Elijah Ruby, 6, his mom, Stacy Wolf (left), Donn Golden (back), 83, and Jocelyn Alton (right), environmental educator for Big Cypress National Preserve, take in the canopy view at the beginning of the 1:30pm walk. The Labor Day Swamp Walk was started in 1994 with 12 people and has grown so popular that the Butchers expect around 1200 participants between Saturday and Monday.
   
An inflatable cowboy veers off the parade route along Santa Rosa Street during the Battle of Flowers Parade, April 24, 2009.
     
  
Hundreds of people attended a vigil organized by Iranians for Peace and Justice at UT Austin on the pedestrian bridge along Lamar Blvd at Town Lake in Austin, Mondaynight, June 22, 2009.
   
Jacquelyn Suarez, the two year reigning champion in the adult watermelon eating contest, holds up her finished slice for the judges at the Luling Watermelon Thump, Saturday, June 27, 2009.
   
Edmundo Rios III, 14, attmpts to tail a bull during the coleadero event of the Fiesta Charreada at the San Antonio Charro Ranch, Sunday, April 26, 2009. "He was born with it," said his father, Edmundo Rios II, a member of the San Antonio Charro Association.
     
  
Samantha Gonzales, 6, left, and Steven Edwards, 4 watch impersonator Nathan Belt as he sings "Heartbreak Hotel," during the Elvis Extravaganza at the Poteet Strawberry Festival, Sunday afternoon, April 5, 2009.