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 (27)
bmac62
Thanks Lucinda! I've always wanted a Phantom for my birthday. Love this 1980 vintage photo...bet you got a lot of opportunities for photography while in the USAF. I really appreciate the thought you put into this...it is right up my alley.
ronmolina
Nice shot!
clbsmiley
Very cool. Oh yeah!!!
Faemike55
Fantastic and great capture and gift for Bill this is so cool
blinkings
Terrific shot, although to me the Phantoms were always deserved of their nickname, 'Double Ugly'!
junge1
Great shot and interesting information!
whaleman
Hmmm, and here I thought they looked pretty menacing! Nice dedi!
auntietk
What a terrific shot! A perfect birthday gift for the birthday aviator. :)
durleybeachbum
How extremely interesting!
wysiwig
Nice shot of this old Phantom. You have quite an interesting history.
giulband
good! I have some of mine photo on Flickr if you like can found them at : http://www.flickr.com/photos/107293413@N04/sets/
helanker
WOW! That is a great dedi for Bill and the story was fantastic.
Rob2753
Excellent shot and a nice dedi :)
magnus073
First of all Lucinda, allow me to say what a super cool dedi this is to your friend. I very much enjoyed the photo and reading about you're experiences with planes. I am so jealous as it would've been a blast to watch jets like this one take off on a regular basis. The best most of us can do is live such experiences through the words and images provided by kind people like yourself.
drifterlee
Wonderful shot!!!!!
jayfar
A super blast from the past Lucinda.
Tamarrion
Love the F-4! One of those planes that looks like it's doing Mach 2 even when parked on the tarmac :) This one looks like it's a recce version?
jendellas
Excellent birthday dedi for Bill. x
jocko500
cool looking image
Cyve
Wonderfully done !
anaber
Hi, Lucinda:)) Wooow, so nice to be here:)))))))))))) again and what exciting career!! I love this model and i think i already did a model in little scale so looong ago, i enjoyed to do this with my son :)) more later i did other kind of 'models' in my work, but they were maketes for moulds for F.1:)) in chrystal. It was an excitment also, but in another way:)) I love this one a lot and your photo in 'real time' is terrific. I think it is the best gift for a pilot like Bill:)) Very well thought and done:)))) Happy Birthday Bill and many many more with much health, joy and love:)
goodoleboy
Terrific clarity and semi silhouetting depicted in this pano of the old F-4 fighter and environs for Bill's birthday commemoration, Lucinda.
blondeblurr
I am in awe of such a striking and dynamic looking plane and what a cool dedi for Bill, but I am also in awe of your job experiences in the UK - it comes as a total surprise ... WOW ! I take my hat off to you, you are multi-talented indeed, who would have thunk it ? ;)) BB
KatesFriend
A very impressive shot Lucinda. Gosh you got to see a lot of placed around the world. I doubt very many people get the opportunity to utilize such a choice vantage point as this. I have to ponder at this moment of what would have amounted to the "state-of-the-art" technology which crammed this plane. It would have been so closely guarded in those days and yet would be described as primitive now. In 1980 I would have only just written my first programme for our school's (well shared with another school) mini-computer. And in 1980, Tom Baker was beginning his seventh and final year as The Doctor.
flavia49
fabulous shot and dedication
mickeyrony
Happy birthday Bill Nice shot and narrative ((5++))
danapommet
The F-4 was a workhorse in Vietnam. We didn't see that many in the mid 60s!