Night Walk

Very early one morning before sunrise a boy and his grandpa set out on a walk together – to Grandma’s favourite place. They stroll through the woods Grandma so loved, especially when she watched the moths fluttering in the moonlight. Then they move into a farmer’s field where they’d once seen a fox calling her mate; pause by a stream – a favourite picnic spot – and the boy remembers his gran laughing at the sound of the frogs. On they go into a clearing, one of Grandpa’s favourite places and also where Grandma talked to her grandson about the owls. Eventually the boy tires and they both sit and rest looking skyward, trying to count the stars. “Are we nearly there yet?’ asks the child. Grandpa shows him the whales below in the sea and they both say how much they miss Grandma. Finally, they reach what Grandpa says is Grandma’s favourite place but the boy cannot see anything. ‘Just wait and watch,’ he’s told. Then up comes the sun heralding the start of a new day: perhaps henceforward this can also be the boy and Grandpa’s favourite place.

A tender tale of love, loss and remembering with exquisite scenes of the natural world from a variety of viewpoints, which clearly reflect the artist’s love of nature as well as that of the story characters herein.