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 (31)
MagikUnicorn
WONDERFUL DOUBLE SHOT AND DEDICATION :)
mgtcs
Wonderful image and very sweet dedication my friend, great job as usual, love it1
goodoleboy
Stellar sequence of images in this fine birthday dedication, Lucinda. Interesting name, Rotella....isn't that also some kind of pasta? It looks like she's all primed to type something out on the keyboard.
Madbat
lol! mines slowly shoving my keyboard under my desk with his butt. More petting, less internets!
Rainastorm
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Randy!
wysiwig
This is very cute. I guess we can put the myth that cats are cold and distant to rest. I don't know Cleo but Rotella's reaction doesn't surprise me.
vaggabondd
lol well I will take any fan I can get but I think I like cleo better haha. besides cleo is my grandmothers name. thanks so much for the present and friendship ")
magnus073
Awwww, Lucinda this is the sweetest birthday dedi ever and made me smile. I really do love both of their responses but have to admit that Rotella's made me laugh really hard.
annie5
Fantastic shots and dedication! Cute :)
jocko500
wonderful looking
Chipka
WOW! What a dedication! It's a perfect gift...both girls are priceless, but I have to say that Rotella kittenish flamboyance is infinitely amusing! Both of these are great shots and I love them. Fantastic work.
helanker
Lucinda, this is so much fun and a wonderful dedication to your friend. :-) Two excellent shots and so amusing :-)
durleybeachbum
Very funny!
BertDes
Beautiful. The IT cat.
mariogiannecchini
Bel lavoro e bella dedica . Rotella è troppo forte ! Sembra un tecnico informatico , visto l'interesse che ha per il computer ! Auguri a Randy !!! Good work and nice dedication. Rotella is too strong! It looks like a computer technician, saw the interest it has for the computer! Congratulations to Randy!
jendellas
I think Rotella is lioke my Jasmine, a bit of a joker. These pics made me smile!!!!
misskitty
This is fabulous!! Such beautiful kitties and you captured their personalities purr-fectly :)
unstart
Marvelous photos and a great b'day card!
sandra46
awesome Bday card!
flavia49
wonderful work!! fantastic dedication!! Happy Birthday!
npauling
Super captures and they surely do look as if they love the computer and the sites. I bet they are a great help when you are posting....
jmb007
splendide photos!!!
drifterlee
This is really cute!!!!!!
M2A
Funny B-Day card.
psyoshida
How cute! Your cats are very clever and quite intelligent. Lovely birthday card. Well done.
lior
Excellent shot and dedication!
adrie
Very cute photoshot my friend, and indeed Randy is a great poem writer and friend.
Lisajobb
Fabulous birthday card for Randy.
clbsmiley
Awww!!! How cute!!!! :)
kasalin
WONDERFUL DEDICATION :)"HAPPY BIRTHDAY", dear Randy !!! Nice idea and realization !!! EXCELLENT work, dear Lucinda !!!!!!!!!!