Meteor shower
1980 CE • Andorra
When I was little, we used to go on vacation to a camping site in Andorra, in the Pyrenees mountains. The camping site used to be just a field of grass where we would pitch our tent or plant our small trailer. At night, every August we would climb the hill in front of the site, on the other side of the river. We would lay down and watch the annual meteor shower. The sky was beautiful and pollutionless.
Memory submitted at One Life: Maya Lin, National Portrait Gallery, 2022-2023
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