Orange is the new Yellow

For some reason I decided to bird Orange County this beautiful sunny morning.  The hour and a half drive went pretty smooth and the birding was good.  I started the day with 33 species and ended it with a respectable 70.  That's a pretty good number and with over 50 birds for this formerly green (1-49 species) county it is now deserving of the coveted yellow (50-100 species) color on my awesome DIY map.
It's quite a process to change all of this so I will leave it green until I have more things to change.  None of the data that I used to make the map is saved so I would have to redo from scratch.

For being such a beautiful day I was unable to get many bird pics but my best one was of this not too common for Orange County Brown Creeper.

The drive home was a bit of a headache but nothing compared to the headache to come.  I got home and decided to tackle my taxes.  I've lost THOUSANDS of dollars over the past few years because of the Health Care individual responsibility "penalty" and after hours of paperwork and calculations and mean mugging every politician who has not done a thing about this or caused this or....

This blog ain't fer politics but I will talk about God.  In Matthew 22:15-22 the Pharisees are trying to trap Jesus asking him if it is lawful to pay taxes to Caesar.  They figured if he said it was right then Jesus would lose favor with the tax-burdened people, but if he said it was wrong then he would look like a law breaker and an enemy of Rome.  Jesus has a classic response,  He said "show me a coin used to pay tax"  Whose likeness and inscription is on it?  They said to him "Caesars".  Then Jesus said "Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's." 

So as much as I don't wanna, I will give what all belongs to God in the first place, to the friendly IRS.

One of my favorite quotes is from a key ring my dad gave me, it says "The Lord provideth and the government taketh away"

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