Tens Of Thousands Of Ducks
Personal memory by Jeremiah Cardinal
2015 CE • Barco, NC, USA
I miss the population of ducks in the winter. My uncle and I used to watch them come in every winter by the tens of thousands. In 2015, now we are lucky to see 3,000 ducks.
Memory submitted at Maya Lin: A Study of Water, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, 2022
Image: DickDaniels, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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