rickyrod.com – – a personal website –

February 13, 2026

Mens prayer breakfast at St James Episcopal Church, Leesburg, VA

https://www.stjamesleesburg.org/event-details-registration/men-of-st-james-breakfast-speaker-series

October 28, 2025October 28, 2025

AWS Certified AI Practitioner

Last week I passed my AWS Certified AI Practitioner examination!

Check out tutorials dojo if you’re interested in some great practice exams.

August 21, 2025

Sunset at Cape Charles, Va

The Six Nations Iroquois Cultural Center

The Six Nations Iroquois cultural center. Look them up on facebook to see some more photos of our dog Hector

Lake Placid, NY

A view of Mirror Lake in Lake Placid, NY

“Pumpkinseed” Sunfish from Union Falls Pond. NY, USA

Caught and released on 8/2/2022

July 31, 2022July 31, 2022

Union Lake, Adirondaks NY

We hiked the Silver Lake bog today near Union Lake, NY

Hike Silver Lake Bog

The easy half mile hike wanders through a bog

A Rishi mushroom in Silver Lake bog

April 9, 2022April 9, 2022

January 10, 2022January 10, 2022

My AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Badge

Amazon Web Services Certified Cloud Practitioner Badge — I got my certification on 12/22/2021

January 7, 2022

Goose Creek 1/1/2022

Mist occurs when the water temp is cooler than the air temp