SEATTLE — Two duck families were photographed this week by local GIF artist Sofia Lee.
Lee was walking through Volunteer Park after a hard day, clearing her head.
She found the ducklings in the koi ponds by the Seattle Asian Art Museum: one family in each pond.
"I'm by no means an ornithologist or an avid birder, or even an occasional bird-watcher," Lee said. "But of course I wouldn't miss a chance to observe some baby animals if I came across them."
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The Seattle Asian Art Museum was rededicated in 1994 in Volunteer Park on land that was once a cemetery.
Leigh Hunt, former editor and publisher of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, was out walking in the 1800s when he came across the cemetery.
Hunt by his own description "fell into a deep communion with nature and under the enchanted spell of her visible forms," <a href="http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=3252" target="_blank">according to HistoryLink.</a>
He advocated for the disposal of the dead elsewhere, proclaiming the ground be “reserved for the enjoyment of the living.”
The city agreed, moving the graves and reserving the space for what, in 1901, would be named Volunteer Park.
[Information from HistoryLink is included in this report.]