Tiptoes Lightly Art > from: 'The Cricket and the Shepherd Boy'
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Shepherd Boy with his sheep
Click 1x for full image. The shepherd boy and his flock going to pasture.
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Clouds
Sometimes the shepherd boy saw clouds that looked like sheep or birds, and once he even saw a dragon!
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Shepherd Boy and Larks
The shepherd boy loved to listen to the larks singing in the morning.
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The cricket sings
The shepherd boy hears a cricket singing in the grass.
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Winter
It is an especially cold winter - just as the cricket foretold.
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At the bluff
Seeking shelter at a bluff with an overhanging fir tree.
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Resting at the bluff.
About to fall asleep at the bluff.
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The cricket sings in winter.
The shepherd boy looks for the cricket on the frozen ground.
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The cricket sings a song
The cricket sings about a special child born in a manger close by.
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The Manger
The shepherd boy finds a family in the manger.
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The cricket sings to the child.
The shepherd boy gazes in amazement at the light-filled child while the cricket sings as if it is summer.
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Time to go
The shepherd boy tells the cricket that it's time to go.
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Morning outside
The shepherd boy leaves the manger and sees that the sun is about to rise.
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Climbing the hill
The shepherd boy climbs his favorite hill to see the sun rise.
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Leaping
The shepherd boy leaps for joy.
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Sunrise
The sheep following the shepherd boy.
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Setting out into the world
The shepherd boy and the cricket set out into the world to tell everyone what they had seen.
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