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 (35)
wysiwig
Yeah, you got it right and so did your neice. Beautiful flower. It fairly glows.
beachzz
What a great review--and your foto is the perfect way of celebrating!!
MaraP
WOW Magical image!
auntietk
Gorgeous image! The lighting is superb. Great review of the play ... I'd not heard of it before, and it sounds great! Thanks for the info!
rainbows
Great review of the play, a wonderful image too. Hugs Di. xx
durleybeachbum
An enchanting photo, and a wonderful review! And what a pretty girl!
lizzibell
Beautiful...
Mondwin
Amazing shot my friend!!!Bravissimo!:DDD.Hugsxx Whylma
helanker
Gorgeous niece you have and these flowers are lovely too :-)
alanwilliams
beautiful living colour
dochtersions
I don't know which flower it is, but it looks very lovely, Lucinda. I also saw that lovely girl. Wishing you a lot of fun next week, dear!
mariogiannecchini
A beautiful flower for a beautiful occasion! I saw this article girl (quite nice)! Congratulations, I think it will be a great night-
flavia49
fantastic image!
annie5
Very elegant..nice colors too! Beautiful picture :)
emmecielle
Wonderful image! lighting is superb! :)
mgtcs
What a charming and elegant picture my dear friend, the delicateness and lighting make this picture unique, adorable image, thank you for sharing!
MagikUnicorn
Thats a Beauty
pspworkshop
Very beautiful work!
jendellas
Stunning pic, very beautiful. Loved reading the review & reading what the play was about, bet it is great fun. Let us know how it goes. XX
drifterlee
This is beautiful!!!!!!!!
unstart
A wonderful review and a dazzling photo!!
alessimarco
I love yellow flowers! This is so delicate and beautiful! Wonderful work!!
sandra46
stunning image! superb composition!
goodoleboy
Terrific lighting brings out the lovely glow and shadow effects in this stunner, Lucinda, and the dark background emphasizes it all!
npauling
A wonderful review for Kate and what a delightful play it sounds to be it made me chuckle. Kate looks ideal for that part. Your beautiful capture does look wonderful with this great lighting.
magnus073
This is such a wonderful photo Lucinda, and you couldn't have selected a more perfect title for it. Your choice of taking a pic of this flower on your first day in New York was brilliant, and knowing how important the time you spent with Leslie then was it gives it even more meaning. Now let me say that it is easy to read the pride in your words above and thank you for allowing us to share how you felt while reading the fantastic review of your niece, Kate in the upcoming play. Hopefully you can share even more with me about this when you have the time.
jocko500
wow she going to be a star. hope she remember you when she makes it big. i know she well but as this image is it is lovely. i going to the paper to read what it say
clbsmiley
Lucinda, This is gorgeous!! Sounds like you are going to have fun too. Will go check out link. :)
jayfar
A really lovely image.
vaggabondd
sounds like it will be great fun. my youngest son was in a couple of plays last year. it was so much fun watching him. and the picture turned out beautiful too. nice work