Serviceberry

I took this photo of a Cedar Waxwing yesterday while birding with Jeanette at Buell County Park here in rural Polk County.  Today while looking a little closer at the photo, I realized the bird was feasting on Serviceberries.  That took me back to my first exposure to Serviceberry.  It was in the summer of 1971.  I was one of several adult counselors with a large group of high school kids on a backpacking trip sponsored by the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the Eagle Cap Wilderness in the far northeast corner of Oregon. Don Henry, Youth Minister at the First Christain Church in Salem, was our leader and substituted Serviceberries for the "fruit of the vine" in a Communion Service.  As you can tell, Serviceberry has been permanently implanted in my mind, for now half a century.