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 (28)
myrrhluz
Taken at Newgrange, Ireland.
annie5
My thoughts are with them too! Stunning landscape, Lucinda :)
MagikUnicorn
Marvelous view of a beautiful country
mickeyrony
Sadness for all those people my Beatiful; . The world is so cruel todays. Nature makes us feel his power. What distress passed in no time like. Prayers for all and a lot of help for them ((5 + +)) La tristesse pour tout ces gens ma Belle . Le monde est si cruel de nos jours . La nature nous fait sentir sa puissance . Quelles détresse se passent en un rien de temps comme . Prières pour tous et beaucoup d'aide pour eux ((5++))
mgtcs
Always such a pleasure to view you work, your lighting is wonderful, magnificent landscape captured amazingly!
magnus073
Thanks so much Lucinda for this lovely dedi for everyone in the Joplin area in need. Hope you and your sister are having a good time on your trip and thanks for sharing this beautiful view of one of the places I'd love to visit myself one day. Wanted to close out my night by visiting your gallery and saying thank you so much for being such a wonderful friend to me for so long. Hope to talk to you when you return. Big hugs
clbsmiley
Nice, I like the touch of grey. Wonderful dedi. Terrible disasters.
anianiani
Valuable.
Madbat
Sure it's pretty, but it doesn't affect me at all, I'm immune to... thud ZZZZzzzzzzzZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzz..........
wysiwig
A perfect title. Gorgeous and very peaceful landscape. Wonderful dedication. Unfortunately it's not over. Dallas and Fort Worth were hit today and Oklahoma.
jayfar
A very beautiful rural scene and a great dedi. I like the buzzard top right!
helanker
OHH Yes! MY thoughts are with the poor people too. It is really scary. Wonderful scenery here, Lucinda.
durleybeachbum
How beautiful this is! A perfect scene for this dedication.
fallen21
Excellent shot.
Bossie_Boots
A wonderful dedi i just heard there has been another one and more losses god be with them !!
evinrude
Lovely.
flavia49
very peaceful and very beautiful!! great dedi!
dochtersions
What an impressing nature shot. In my heart I'm with the people in need in this world. They are in my prayers. Thank you so much for this photo shot, and for sharing your words, dear Lucinda!
jendellas
Very tranquil, superb pic for Dave!!!
mariogiannecchini
Gorgeous and very peaceful landscape! Wonderful dedication, Lucinda !
drifterlee
Gorgeous shot!
emmecielle
A splendid image for a lovely dedication!
goodoleboy
Beautiful vista, Lucinda. And my comments echo all those that have preceded me.
npauling
A wonderful peaceful looking scene you have captured and it is a super dedication to Dave and all the people who have lost loved ones and homes.
jocko500
it have not rain at all here so we too dry now. 22 inches below the water we should get. very good shot here.
alanwilliams
as someone who has never experienced hurricane, and has not seen or experienced the misery and damage that they can do i can only sympathise and this i do in bucketloads
sandra46
EXCELLENT IMAGE
rainbows
Beautiful work and dedication, Lucinda. Splendid. Hugs. Di. xx