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 (26)
Faemike55
Very beautiful dedication to Ana
mickeyrony
Happy birthday Ana, and a great recovery to you . Nice to you again from your heart ((5++))
HeavensBlonde
awesomeeeeeeee happy b day also, God Bless
clbsmiley
A beauty Lucinda!! A wonderful window. :)
magnus073
Lucinda, this is a wonderful dedication for your friend. What a clever idea you had, and a magnificent job you did in bringing it to life. It's almost as if the plants are looking in to see what is going on. Or maybe they were posing just for you and your camera ;) In these modern times who's to say that a plant can't want attention too
durleybeachbum
An exciting image! My wisteria is always diving in for a quick look round!
wysiwig
What a lovely image for Anaber. Research has shown that plants will grow toward classical music. What were you playing?
jayfar
A super shot and a lovely dedi Lucinda.
alanwilliams
a truly beautiful and well observed picture
drifterlee
Beautiful dedication!!!!!
helanker
WOW! What a marvellous looking window. I love it. Superb dedi for our dear Ana :-)
jendellas
I love the effect, super work!!
npauling
A beautiful capture and a great birthday gift. I love how the garden is trying to come inside and say 'hello'.
anaber
Lucinda:)) thank you very much for your gift :) I sat and looked for several times and your image has a deep meaning to me:))I feel your image as a wonderful dream coming inside out and v/versa. Here, the DREAM commands the reality...and the real leafs coming to the inside of the window, will make the dream come true:))!!!! Windows to me, are a great challenging...yet, a channeling between two different worlds: one reality so touchable and the "reality" of the dreams, day-to-day, living inside us... Your image put it all, before my nose, clearly!!! showing that if the dream is possible, also will be possible make it reality:) Your image brings music and brings life from outside to the inside, through the window, with strenght and hope, with this leafs of the ivy, because i think that ivy grows and grows, without much human intervention....but needs,YES,of the intervention of nature, and her life,i think,comes mainly, from its own "hands"...and all THIS, it is painted on the glass of this window, bringing music from the nature:) this window that you offered me, shows, what sometimes, we, ourselves, are not able to see... And the golden´ leaf painted among all the greens it is very, very significant in the scene:)!! Thank you Lucinda so much:))) NO WORDS for this image!! No words for you too:)
Minda
beautiful work and nice dedication lucinda.
flavia49
marvelous capture
KatesFriend
My first thought is that, in just a moment, a kitty is going to spring in through this window after his morning prowl. Of coarse, the cat is not the only living thing that wants to come in. It looks like the foliage is also intent upon invading this home. Day of the Triffids anyone? I feel the urge to open the window more fully and survey the environment beyond the frosted glass. It must be a very green place. I think I can hear the birds chirping as I look. Lovely glass too, one does not see cut and frosted windows these days. I guess they were popular for washrooms on the main floor of a home or perhaps a cottage. More expensive too so used sparingly. Not so common in new homes today.
sandra46
MARVELOUS IMPRESSIVE WORK!
anianiani
Loved it..
blondeblurr
Something so simple, as some Ivy being nosey and wanting to explore, the - In's and Outs! - and can make such an entrance, there are no boundaries ;) ... what a gorgeous image and lovely find and observation, Lucinda plus a fine dedi for your friend, BB
auntietk
I love the way the leaves reach in ... such a lovely image! I have a fondness for things that are dark and light with a single color (preferably green) and this jumps off the page and into my heart. What a beautiful piece!
emmecielle
Wonderful image and dedi! :)
dochtersions
Such an amazing beautiful and special photo and dedication, dear Lucinda. That green color and the textures on the window, makes all here in a way 'unreal', if you know what I mean. It's like a great painting to me.
Chipka
This is simply amazing, quite marvelously sensitive, and supremely beautiful. As I seem to have fallen off the face of the earth (new jobs are odd!) I have a lot of catching up to do in so many ways! I simply had to comment on this, simply because it's quite marvelous. I've been reading a lot of Ursula K. LeGuin (no surprise there) recently, and I've been thinking a lot of her story collection: "Changing Planes" and this makes me think of that nicely wonderful collection of stories involving other cultures. This looks like something she'd describe in some librarian's house, or maybe in the house of a dyspeptic baker: given by the baker, with dyspepsia, to his wife (who likes Wisteria) for no reason other than he likes to hear her humming wisteria songs to herself, when she looks at it. This is that kind of image, and that's only ONE of the reasons why I like it so much. This is superb, and a perfect birthday dedication!
jarmila
nice corner, great ey..ciao
danapommet
This photo is so pretty with the window out and the vines coming in. Beautiful perspective!