Beautiful Nested Terns
Personal memory by Carmen Futrell
1990 CE • North Great Neck Road, Virginia Beach, VA, USA
In the '80s, I would visit the Lynnhaven River's edge where terns nested in the ground. They were beautiful to watch and interact with. A developer built condominiums on the site, thus eliminating all nature present.
Memory submitted at Maya Lin: A Study of Water, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, 2022
Image: D. Gordon E. Robertson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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