Indian Plum in bloom

When the Indian Plum begins to bloom you know for sure that spring is here. Also today along the Willamette River fifty Tree Swallows were circling high, a flock of Dunlin swirled down to land in a flooded field, and a Bald Eagle was keeping eggs warm in a nest in a Cottonwood tree. It was the kind of day to make one agree with the words of St. Thomas Aquinas, "Every existence, as such, is good."