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.Â
Comments (40)
bmac62
Rotella is well publicized...being on your avatar gets her into and out of a lot of tight places:)
giovanino
lol cool cat
clbsmiley
chuckle chuckle LOL Great one dear!!!
mickeyrony
Beautiful She-cat my friend " Surely and of good company. Mercies much of your eulogistic comments. You take time of to absorb savours. Mine has the hair very long Bonnie. You see the kind?? Cheer and mile mercies ((5++)) Belle Chatte mon ami " Surement et de bonne compagnie . Mercis beaucoup de tes commentaires élogieux .Tu prends le temps d'absorber les saveurs La mienne a le poil très long Bonnie . Tu vois le genre ?? Bravo et mile mercis ((5++))
CoreyBlack
This is funny! She looks so fierce, which probably means that she's just yawning. It's funny when cats yawn. They look so predatory, and then they roll over purring. This is a great shot. I'm more of a dog person, but having lived with a rather strange cat, I appreciate them a lot more. Great work!
tennesseecowgirl
Looks like my cat this morning she woke me up during the night not sure what time it was, but was demanding to go outside, and it is very cold here, woke up to snow, so I thought ok if you are sure, enjoy I am going back to bed, so by the time I got up today she was sitting on the window ledge peeking in waiting to be let back in and she wasn't very happy. maybe she should learn to sleep all night like we all do.. lol silly cats indeed.
JaneEden
Oh she is precious!!! Love her fun pose, hugs Jane xx
novelist
LOL. That is great! I've been watching the new Dark Shadows, and this is putting me in the mood to watch the next episode. I love kitty's expression. Excellent capture.
kasalin
Wow!!! Excellent close up full of neat details!!! Well done, dear Lucinda !!! 5*:)
Chipka
Ah...Rotella demonstrating "Predatory Yawn #3" no doubt. I had a cat who would yawn that way and produce a strange, wet fluttering noise as he'd flex the back of his throat and soft palate. Some cats apparently do that for no particular reason. I love this picture though, as it's so feline! Usually when a cat is captured mid yawn, they hear the click of the camera and feel themselves overcome by the urge to smell it and leave nose-prints on the lens. I wonder if Rotella attempted that...