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 (37)
Wolfmanw
Wonderful Photo collage
durleybeachbum
How kind of him! Marvellous to see.
rainbows
It is a beautiful gift and wonderful shots, all. Superb work form the two of you. Hugs. Diane. xx
Madbat
Cool! Mickey strikes again!
francinechristophe
A-M-A-Z-I-n-G 8
drifterlee
What a wonderful gift!!!!!!
SerenityBlue
Wow, that is amazing! What a beautiful gift, and thanks for sharing it with all of us, too.
Vialliy
Very original gift. It looks somewhat impressionistic.
Sea_Dog
Stunning work!
mgtcs
This is really a wonderful image my friend, fabulous dedication to a marvelous person, artist and friend, loved it a lot! **
Meisiekind
What a friend!!! Thank you for sharing this beautiful piece with us Lucinda!
bimm3d
very beautiful!!!!
jmb007
superbe travail!
jayfar
Very beautiful idea and very clever.
mariogiannecchini
Very wonderful !!!A very beautiful gift !
helanker
WOW What a gorgeous and very touching gift. Thank you for sharing it. :-)
unstart
What a lovely gift..beautifully composed!!
alanwilliams
what a wonderful realisation of a marvellous idea
jendellas
WOW, that is so clever, I have jigsaws like this.
sandra46
i like this great, amazing, gorgeous image!
npauling
A beautiful collage by Mickey it looks amazing with the scene in front.
mickeyrony
You know my Beautiful , I did not do it to receive praise from all sides. I brought you a present because you deserve emplement and for me I try to give you back a mere part of your heart that you give to your friends at any moment. So for me my heart is filled with the wisdom of the Kings for filling a Queen of attention to others. Thank you again for all my Beautiful ((5 + +)) MICKEYRONY Tu sais ma Belle ,Je n'ai pas fait cela pour y recevoir éloges de toutes parts . Je t'ai fait un cadeau parce que tu le mérites emplement et pour moi j'ai essayer de te redonner qu'une simple partie de ton coeur que tu redonnes à tes amis à tout instant . Alors pour moi mon coeur est rempli de la sagesse des Rois pour avoir combler une Reine de l'attention envers les autres . Merci encore pour tout ma Belle ((5++)) MICKEYRONY
alessimarco
What a wonderful gift! Beautiful and thoughtful!!!
magnus073
Lucinda, first of all please forgive me if my comments rattle on a bit but it was a long night and althought I'm out on my feet this is one image that had to be seen before bed. When we talked about this fabulous image Mickey created for you this morning it had me thinking all day of what it must look like. What I can say is it lives up to all my expectations, and is such a marvelous dedi. It's hard not to keep zooming in over and over to try and take in all the images, and in a small way try to experience the joy you must have felt upon seeing it yourself for the first time. This is the perfect way to close out my evening. Hugs
wysiwig
An outstanding gift! Looks like a lot of work. I think someone has a big fan.
whaleman
A most appealing work from a very nice person!
flavia49
outstanding!!
emmecielle
Very beautiful gift! Excellent work! :)
dochtersions
This is overwhelming G.R.E.A.T. To see all your beauties in such a lovely present. You deserve it, Lucinda. What a joy!!!
JaneEden
How wonderful it is and how wonderful Mickey is too, I love this, hugs Jane xx