+++++ What Thomas Kinkade said about this work +++++
"This painting was executed directly from life with my easel planted
precariously in the mud surrounding the ancient mill pond. As I sat observing
the tranquil scene, I was amazed at how many people would visit the pond to
throw bread and biscuits to the ducks and geese. Over the weeks I was at
work, I, too, got in the habit of feeding the ducks and, in time, the more
adventurous of these would regularly settle themselves in the shade beneath
my easel."
~~Thomas Kinkade
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