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)
lior
Excellent shot and superb dedication!
jmb007
belle photo et dedi!
tennesseecowgirl
Beautiful work, and a nice way to mark Jane and Flavias birthday.
Chipka
Ooh, Blackberry cobbler...I've only ever had peach or pear, and a few humungous portions of apple...but never blackberry. This must be corrected! Immediately. And now that I've gone on a bit about food...hmmm...food...I love that stuff...anyway, since I've gone on and on about food, maybe I should say something about this picture. It's outstanding. I love Pelicans. There is something so dinosauroid about them...I think it's their faces and their head proportions, and the fact that when you look at their eyes, they seem to know something. What, I don't know, especially since pelicans don't speak English, and so, can't tell you...but still...I always get the impression that they know.
0rest4wicked
Wonderful image! More B-days I've missed. A belated wish to both!
anahata.c
read the comments, like Harry's comparing the rocks to chocolate & ground peanuts, and a number of people commenting on the gumbo. Man, I wish I weren't vegetarian sometimes: That sounds like a great southern dish! Not to mention the cobbler (which chip gets poetic about). As for the shot, a wonderful stop action capture of birds taking off & in flight, very difficult to capture (unless you're one of those photographers who do this all the time, like danny o'brien, etc). Great that we see one starting, and one in flight. And someone commented on the deep blue water (helle, maybe?): I agree that it's a fine backdrop. And those rocks: They look like carved turtles! Great rocks! A lovely shot, and appetizing with all the food talk and imagery. And it's nice that you share these trips with us through images & words...
psyoshida
These a beautiful pelicans, caught in great action. I can watch them for hours and sometimes I do. We don't have white pelicans only brown so I love a chance to see these beauties. The colors of your picture are stunning the blue water and the white pelicans and the brown of the rocks makes a great scene. Very beautiful.