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.ÂÂ
Comments (24)
durleybeachbum
They are all gorgeous! Best wishes to Lynn!
ronmolina
I wonder how old the tree with the roots is.
blondeblurr
Each single tree shows a different type of character/shape and age - just like us humans ... and each single one can tell us their own story, if we only take the time and know how to listen ;)) A wonderful dedication for your friend or anyone who is a tree-hugger ... Take care Lucinda, BB
jayfar
Super tree shots Lucinda.
Cyve
Fantastic capture my friend... wonderfully done !!!
mickeyrony
Happy Birthday Lynn..... A lot of tourments on this tree!!!! But so beautiful Thanks a lot to share thoses beauties ((5++))
magnus073
You did such a nice job on this very thoughtful dedi to Lynn. She is such a wonderful lady, and deserves a dedi like this to celebrate her birthday. Very nice work as always Lucinda.
clbsmiley
Love em!!! I like them all. But I like POV on the bottom right a lot. I like the two of them. The twin towers....
Faemike55
Great job on the collage and birthday dedication
jendellas
Some beautiful trees, lovely dedi for Lynn. HAPPY BIRTHDAY Lynn. xx
helanker
What a gorgeous bunch of trees, Lucinda. A beautiful dedi for Lynn :) Happy Birthday Lynn.
flavia49
wonderful collage
sandra46
GREAT WORK
jocko500
wow love the tree with the root running along the top of the ground. You do have a lot of differ trees in your area
drifterlee
Very beautiful trees and dedi!
goodoleboy
I'm glad you got to the roots of all this with this wonderful montage of arboreal beauty, Lucinda. Looks like a ficus at the bottom left. Haven't heard from you in quite a spell. Since you're such a tree lover, I've been posting all kinds of trees, bark, leaves, branches, twigs, trunks, and burls for some time on Rendo. Anyway, Happy Birthday to ShadowsNTime, who I barely know.
auntietk
Okay ... Guadalupe River State Park. Check. That is absolutely on my list!! Beautiful trees for Lynn ... what a lovely birthday dedi!
mgtcs
A truly inspired and absolutely marvelous image! Masterful captures my friend, the textures and lighting are fantastic, precious B-day gift! Congratulations!
Richardphotos
I took pictures of the same trees but have never posted beautiful collage
KatesFriend
A lovely compilation, the various shades of blues and greens are quite captivating. I really am a sucker for colour. I love the gnarly roots of the one by the river. It is rather surreal to see the two lives of a tree depicted in one moment. Normally one envisions trees as great living towers which spire the hill sides and horizons like a quiver full of arrows. But more than half of their being is below ground, reshaping the earth with their powerful tentacle-like roots. Unlike above ground, the roots spread out around to dominate the landscape unseen. Here you have managed to lay bare the raw strength of this tree in both worlds. We now know it controls much more of its world than the simple girth of its trunk might suggest.
ShadowsNTime
Dear Lucinda, Thank you so much for this gorgeous collage of my favorite thing! The top image is so native!!! I see a brave,resting or wounded with his shield laying at his feet. Can you see him? :-) Perfect angle on that shot as you know I always look for the spirits. There are no good trees for 'grounding' myself here so how I would love to ground myself on those awesome roots and branches. I am not doing well so I won't be back any time soon:-( but as Mark let me know about this I had to come see. I still owe you an email for the last tree shots and kitty pics you sent me, hope to get to that soon but just don't know from day to day what I can do. I so appreciate you for this and the others. Many blessings, love and light your way!
wysiwig
So there really is a Lucinda. I love trees, especially their smell. See how the tree at bottom right demurely crosses its double trunk like a young woman. And the senior citizen at bottom left has witnessed so much history. A wonderful quartet and lovely present for Lynn. I hope life is being good to you, Lucinda.
anianiani
Lovely Green..Thanks
danapommet
I like the textures in the upper left, the root system lower left and the POV lower right. A super collage!