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 (33)
eekdog
nice capture.
jocko500
that tree still have live in it as the branches comes out the stump. cool shot
goodoleboy
Stellar contrast and detail in this pic of the survival of the fittest, Lucinda. With that title I was expecting to see a Pit Bull with its jaws tightly clamped around the limb of some unfortunate soul.
lior
A so wonderful capture & a so wonderful photograph!
alessimarco
The life force is truly amazing, no? Wonderful capture!
wysiwig
I love the title. It fits perfectly. Superb capture showing us how stubborn and creative living things are when it comes to survival.
helanker
What a lovely stump and you really captured it beautifully. :)
jayfar
Plenty of tenacity and determination. Well seen.
rainbows
A beautiful capture, excellent work. Hugs. Di. xx
durleybeachbum
You can't keep a good willow down!
alanwilliams
new growth from old beginnings, heartwarming concept, beautiful picture
magnus073
Very nice photo Lucinda, and the title fits it so well. This of course makes me wonder what was on your mind at the time of the capture, or maybe the better question is even now ;)Maybe this is a time when you need to feel this way as life is swirling all around you.
dochtersions Online Now!
A wealth of light and beautiful vibrant green. A fantastic vivid picture, dear Lucinda! Thanks for sharing, its a joy to look at.
mariogiannecchini
Excellent title, and highly significant at the pictures! Great capture ,Lucinda !
thecytron
Great photo!
jendellas
Wonder who lives in a house like that, lovely tree!!!
clbsmiley
New life from old. :) Great capture :)
emmecielle
Wonderful image, Lucinda! great capture! :)
drifterlee
Gorgeous woodland shot!
sandra46
AMAZING COMPOSITION!
npauling
A great title for this wonderful capture. Very well spotted and captured.
Madbat
Yup, that's tenacity all right, also known as too stubborn to die, not gonna be compost, and what's the fuss about all this death business anyway!
flavia49
marvelous image!
mickeyrony
Nature has a force inémaginable my Beatiful. Thank you very much for taking an exposure time to show us this beauty. Sometimes death succeeded life more like smiling. Congratulations again and thanks for sharing mile ((5 + +)) La nature a une force inémaginable ma Belle . Merci beaucoup d'avoir pris un temps de pose pour nous démontrer cette beauté. Des fois la mort succède à la vie encore plus souriante comme . Bravo encore et mile mercis du partage((5++))
pspworkshop
What a strange tree, but a nice shot of it!
jmb007
superbe arbres!!
anianiani
excellent...
vaggabondd
boy that stump sure has a lot of branches growing off of it, nice capture
0rest4wicked
Well said!
anahata.c
a really fine capture of a stump giving birth to a multiplicity of branches & leaves. And of the greenery around it. Finely captured & seen. And another shot of Oakland Lake. (When I get back to NY one day, I'll have to see this place. The funny thing is in shots like these, sometimes the shots make the areas look huge; but then when you're there, they're suddenly small. May not be the case here, but it's one of the 'magics' of photography.) In any case, a delightful shot & overgrown...and very springy (nice counterpoint to the end of November). I know I"ve skipped images from further back as well as recent, but I have to move on; there are still people I haven't seen yet (including at the beginning of the alphabet---yep, I even skip some of those!). But I'll be back. A real pleasure being here again. Hope your thanksgiving was splendid, Lucinda!!!