Traveling SQL DBA

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Retired database manager, Homebrewer, Happily Married, Liberal thinking Gun Owner, lover of Heavy Metal music and good old fashioned blues rock. Born and brought up in the deep south. He/Him "We're all stuck on this planet, so we might as well learn to get along." #KC5GWH #Photography #MSSQL #Louisiana

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Blue Ridge Parkway near Buchanan Virginia, 7am this morning.

#Photography
#Landscape
#Virginia
#Mountains
#Sunrise
#BlueRidgeParkway

#MardiGras
#Louisiana
#BatonRouge
#Photography

Title is 'Lady in Red goes to Mardi Gras'.

Revisiting older photos as I think about this year's parade season.

#RenFest
#Photography
#Louisiana

Happy to share this one. I managed to get 2nd place in monochrome this month in the Basic group of photographers of the Louisiana Photographic Society.

Title: Barbarian Barter

Snow in Louisiana. Not the norm.
#Snow2025 #Louisiana

"And that you help those that are fleeing war zones and persecution in their own lands find compassion and welcome here. Our God teaches us that we are to be merciful to the stranger, for we were all once strangers in this land."

The man's response? He has called Bishop Budde "nasty," a word he reserves for uppity women, and he demands that she apologize.

#BishopBudde #Trump #mercy #bible #immigrants #migrants #LGBTQ
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-demands-apology-from-bishop-mariann-budde-after-she-hurt-his-feelings/

Donald Trump Demands Apology From Bishop Who Hurt His Feelings

Right Rev. Mariann Budde had appealed to Trump to have mercy and compassion during an interfaith service.

The Daily Beast

"It is one of the most extraordinary moments of the Trump era, and reminds us, on this day after we honored Dr. King, that not all heroes wear capes. Some may also wear robes."

~ Simon Rosenberg

#BishopBudde #Trump #mercy #bible #immigrants #migrants #LGBTQ #courage #witness
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https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/in-an-extraordinary-moment-dc-bishop

In An Extraordinary Moment DC Bishop Challenges Trump To Have Mercy For "People Who Are Scared Now" (Video)

Please watch and share my friends. Watch, and share.

Hopium Chronicles By Simon Rosenberg
#RenFest #Louisiana Ren Fest from this past weekend. #Photos #Photography
The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words - Elliott Erwitt
#photography #quote
Update: I planned to celebrate the 42nd anniversary of my hike with a sequel Appalachian Trail hike in 2025 and a new book, but Hurricane Helene had other plans. March 2026 now seems much more likely as my start date. In the very likely event that we don't thru-hike in 2025, we intend to get out for a long section hike on the Appalachian Trail, probably covering the 400+ miles between Duncannon in southern Pennsylvania to Williamstown in northern Massachusetts.
#photography
#NewYork
Photo taken near Bear Mountain on the #AppalachianTrail in 2023. I was waiting for my wife at this spot. This spot seemed so lonely, but utterly peaceful.