Hi, I'm Lucinda
The photo was taken with my new Canon EOS 450D (with a tamron 18-200mm lense), by me in the mirror. It's a little overexposed, but at my age, that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Bare Bones Bio:
I was born in Louisiana, USA in 1956, youngest of four girls. In 1967 we all moved to New Jersey when my father was transferred. I've always loved to read and soon gravitated towards Sci Fi, Fantasy, and nonfiction (mostly English History). The last was influenced by watching Masterpiece Theatre. I had the opportunity to go to the UK and Greece on 10 day Easter trips through my high school, which instilled in me an itch to travel. After one year of college,(I learned a lot, but unfortunately not much from my professors and text books) I joined the Air Force and went to Japan and England. I married a fellow GI (Bill), in England, got out of the Air Force (Bill stayed in)and went back to the States. Bill and I then lived in Rancho Cordova, California (where we had our first son, Charles),
Biloxi, Mississippi (where we had our second son, James), Oxfordshire, UK (For me, thank you Bill), and San Antonio, Texas (where we live now). Bill is retired from the Air Force and drives a Big Rig for J. B. Hunt. I am an office manager for a carwash. Charles and James graduated last May from University of Texas at San Antonio and Texas A&M at College Station respectively. Yeah!!!
Interests:
Reading - Mostly nonfiction history, though I have widened the field somewhat. I also like journals and diaries and have been reading "The Diary of Samuel Pepys" on and off for a while now. I'm currently on Vol. VII 1666. (I haven't gotten to the great fire yet). My fiction tends to run to fantasy, Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, and Neil Gaiman to name a few.
Music - I grew up on rock, folk, musicals, classical, and Gilbert and Sullivan. I still love all that and have added jazz, blues, bluegrass, celtic and a little country. I don't play any instruments and can't sing (the singing talent in our family seemed to lessen with each new sister and I'm the baby of the bunch), but I'm an enthusiastic listener.
Art (Drawing, Photography and Oil Painting) - One of the regular pastimes of my sisters and I growing up was paper dolls. We used typing paper to make swimsuit clad paper dolls with pattern book heads. Then we spent countless hours drawing and coloring clothes for them. Depending on the current story, they could be clothes from Regency England, Colonial America, or Star Trek. I also drew faces from the hairdo magazines and was happy if they looked fairly human. I now draw and have recently taken up oil painting. I'm a definite amateur at photography. I've taken pictures since the mid 70s when I went to Japan, but they are mostly of my travels, kids and cats. I've got a lot to go through to see which ones are worth posting. I bought my first digital camera last April (09) for my birthday (I ordered it in April, received it in May, for my birthday in June. (I don't believe in being too literal about such things) I bought PhotoShop in June. I've still got a lot to learn on both, but it's a lot of fun.
Other - My sister Gail and I love The Teaching Company lectures. We both buy history, I occasionally buy literature and she occasionally buys math and science and we watch each other's. I'm also a tad fond of cats.
I could gush, and probably have, about all the talent I see on RR. I find myself using the words wow and beautiful far too much. I guess I should pull out the Thesaurus.ÂÂ
Comments (28)
JuliSonne
You want to play, small cat? I want you to cuddle! S W E E T and C H A R M A N T L Y !!!!
moni2000
Your Rotelle to eat sweet, a gorgeous baby cats, to fall in love, good phots, quite simply, because vierbeiner very quickli!
moochagoo
Funny little pet.
Alex_Antonov
Very nice!
virginiese
very cute cat ! love the pose :-)
Rainastorm
Aww...VERY cute...and maybe a ham? LOL Love the pic of her! She poses well!
nigh23
cutie she is your getting quite creative good work
jendellas
Rotella, what a lovely unusual name. She is very beautiful.
durleybeachbum
Those eyes!
misskitty
What a sweet face! I love her pose :)
sleeping_tiger
so cute! I love how the border looks like yarn:)
goodoleboy
Showing off for the folks! Your kitty exquisitely framed in this excellent shot!
orig_buggy
awwww she is lovely and very playful looking!!
danapommet
Cute capture - 1st class goofball. Beautiful eyes. Dana
angelafair
Awwww....she is CUTE! Fantastic shot, and awesome boarder!
wysiwig
She is too cute, but be honest, most cats are a little goofy. That's why we love them. Most cat lovers are a little bit goofy as well. After all, you never hear of a crazy dog lady.
tpx1
cute
vaggabondd
lol what a cutie indeed
tennesseecowgirl
Very cute~~
tofi
Awww... most cute little sweetheart, waiting to play! A beautiful and charming Rotella!:)
MC-Jay-One
Great shot!
flora-crassella
your cat is soooooooo cute!!!!!!!
katy555
Wonderful picture...
sandra46
supercute! great shot!
TomDart
Certainly..this is a cutie and a goofball. Why not? Cats love being goofballs. This is a nice kitty shot.
mariogiannecchini
This, too, girlfriend! Thank you, good day Anche questo un'amico ! Grazie , buona giornata
Chipka
I love the fact that I looked back in your gallery and saw this shot! Cats are goofballs. Kittens to, which just shows that they never grow out of it. I love Rotella's expression; once you know what to look for on a feline face, you can see a wealth of expressions (and they have a "language" of over 100 different meows, if I remember correctly. Of course they don't bother to teach anyone what those particular vocal sounds mean...typical!) I really like the light in this and the way her little pink chin shows through the thinner chin hairs (you never notice how thin chin-tip hair is, unless you have a dark cat. But I have it on good feline authority that it aids in eating.) I love the post work here too...it's obvious you had fun and it's fun looking at this image, wondering what's going through that convoluted little kitten mind! This is adorable.
anianiani
Rotella is tired..but nice moment and shot.