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 (27)
moochagoo
Funny collage :))
mgtcs
Beautiful and funny...excellent capture and collage! Congratulations! 5+
vaggabondd
Man that cat kind of scares me lol. nice captures and story to go with them :)
Revelation-23
Ha! I remember reading Tumbleweeds and vaguely remember what you're talking about. Looking back at what's you're previously posted, I'm guessing Pepper's king around your house and Rotella's an unwelcome addition (and taking away from HIS attention time). Maybe Pepper's disposition towards Rotella will improve and the rookie won't be "frown away".
wysiwig
Don't worry about Rotella. As soon as she gets a little bigger she will put poor Pepper in his place. Females have a tendency to that to us guys (Is that how you're going to leave the litter box? At least cover it up, this place is a pigsty!){:-0)
mariogiannecchini
Un bel collage, molto simpatico! A beautiful collage, very nice! Buona domenica
durleybeachbum
Excellent expressions! Your house is probably like the front cover of 'Minimalist Living' compared to mine!
Alex_Antonov
Remarkable work!
flavia49
wonderful!
tpx1
nice work
Rainastorm
Aww...cute collage. I hope things work out between them...
frankie96
No doubt about what he is thinking...we have a couple of cats that just tolerate and basically ignore each other most of the time..
Alz2008
Wonderful capture and cat, excellent well done..
emmecielle
Wonderful collage! :)
JSGraphics
Outstanding work! Very Well Done!
jendellas
Bless Pepper, love his little face, Great pics.
goodoleboy
I didn't know Pepper was a plains Indian. Sounds like Tonto. No mistaking those series of expressions of the kitty, looking rather disconcerted when confronted by a pretender to the throne! Keen collage!
misskitty
This is such an awesome collage! I love his expressions - perfect title! We just adopted 2 kitties and I believe one of them is thinking the same thing "no like-um little cat". Let me know how it goes...I'm still hopeful :) Again, great work!!
helanker
HAHA He looks a little dour there :-))) But sweet too.
sandra46
superb composition!
figharo
The many moods of CAT... I love them. Wonderful study.
danapommet
Beautiful cat and collage. I am sure that they will become BFF as time go on. Dana
moni2000
Wonderful collage*****
meowserific
great collage. Hopefully the attitude will change a bit. (I know, I know we are talking about a cat here.) LOL Beautiful cat.
Chipka
Cats. I love 'em...and yeah, they do talk like that...it's because of the fangs, so I've been told. I'm sure his attitude has changed by now, but wow! I know that behavior well. When I had my cat, Natasha, she'd go from adorable fur-ball to adorable-furry-little-spitfire whenever a neighborhood cat would stray too close to her window! Ah...cats! I love 'em.
MagikUnicorn
LOVELY CAT COLLAGE
anianiani
Very nice close up pictures..well edited with detail..thanks.