The Shepherd
There were blue skies with scattered puffy clouds
A flock of sheep had come down from the hillside to graze peacefully in the meadows below
The shepherd and his two faithful collies watched from a distance
It has been a very mild winter and all the lambs had survived
The shepherd's collies kept their eyes trained on the flock
The shepherd's staff was fashioned from the branch of a tree
Like the collies, the staff had served him well
In two weeks time flocks of sheep would lose their winter coats at the sheep sheering
It was a hard life but times like such as today the shepherd and his collies could simply watch the world go by