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 (29)
durleybeachbum
Gorgeous little person! Perfect for our friend.
gaius
Brrrrrr ! did you say pretty ? As an arachnophobiac I'd say your shots are great but I'm not sure I'd appreciate its company !
jendellas
I love his/her little face in the top right pic, so cute!!!
stormsong
It's a jumping spider. They are more intelligent of the spiders. They can reason and solve problems as well as have excellent eyesight. We love them. There are over 300 species of the jumping spider. great shot
wysiwig
It does not look happy. Perhaps it's camera shy. Wonderful shots.
blondeblurr
First of all let me say, this is an incredible cute collage - the way he is posing for you and even-so we know that this is not his mouth - he appears to have such sad little face with those markings ... maybe it's because he has such short and stumpy little legs ? There is no doubt Chipka will be stoked with this dedication - many ~Happy Returns~ to Chip and well done Lucinda, BB
magnus073
This is a wonderful collage Lucinda, and a very thoughtful dedi to your friend. I've never seen a spided like this one before, and love the blue face on the little gal. ( can tell it's a girl because of the delicate way she carries herself. lol )
bobrgallegos
Awesome collage!! Looks like she's frowning!!
dochtersions
LOL, is this a stunning capture and collage, dear Lucinda. Happy birthday Chip!
helanker
What a beautiful and very staring spider LOL ! Looks fantastic. Excellent shots, Lucinda.
auntietk
I particularly like the top-right view. That face is incredible! A wonderful collection of photos, and perfect for Chip's birthday!
mariogiannecchini
Excellent shots an collage ,Lucinda !
jayfar
A super set of pics Lucinda.
Jean-Luc_Ajrarn
A very pretty spider, indeed! :)
goodoleboy
Nice detail and patterns in this collage, Lucinda. You mean to say that the spider held its breath until it turned blue in the face just for a birthday greeting to Chip? Rather bizarre, and goes beyond magnanimous.
flavia49
great dedication
Erestorfan
Oh, I LOVE jumpers!! They are...well, dare I use the word cute for a spider? Yes, these little guys ARE cute. I love watching them and enjoying the different colors and markings they have. Great capture!
npauling
Great captures of this little fellow but I'm afraid I'm a little scared of all spiders, I think it was a childhood thing that scared me.
Chipka
Oh, I love jumping spiders: they have hydraulic legs, you know. They're also very hard to capture, photographically, due to that jumping thing they're known for. Spiders are supposedly not cuddly, but to me they have a cuteness factor that's impossible to deny. When I was a kid, I always wondered why we have teddy bears (stylized predatory animals with great, big teeth and claws; I mean, real bears kill people, and so we encourage our children to sleep with fake ones?) We have those, but not teddy spiders? That's not fair...and just look at this one (I love the first shot as he [she] is also sticking his [her] butt up in the air like some kind of really fancy acrobat/contortionist. This is brilliant and yeah, I love it. It's even better for me as I've never seen a blue-faced one. The ones in Chicago are just a bit...well...cork colored with brown bits. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you for this! I love it!
bimm3d
fantastic spider and great photos!!
emmecielle
Interesting photos! Excellent collage! :)
Minda
oh my spider.....:) great shot lucinda..
mickeyrony
Nice collage of the spider. I like the upper right, she seems to smile. Bravo and many thanks for sharing ((5 + +)) Joli collage de cette arraignée .J'aime bien celle du haut à droite ,elle semble nous sourire .é Bravo et mille mercis de partager ((5++))
mgtcs
Adorable image and dedication here, big and beautiful spider Lucinda! Well done!
Madbat
Awww lookit that sad little face! :(
anianiani
Excellent..?
annie5
lol..Stunning capture Lucinda! :)
clbsmiley
Oooo!! A jumping spider. You can keep him. :) I like the solitude post too my dear, you know I like them all. I posted funny spider today. :)
dakotabluemoon
Awesome capture of this spider and very cool gallery,thanks for coming by mine also.