Flowers for Alys

"Flowers for Alys" is a story from another time and another place. The time is the past, a time when life was much simpler than our modern-day version. Although it could become complicated in its own different ways.

The place is a village, and a wood, full of sights and sounds and scents, and weather. Lots of weather, not always the kind you would want to be out in. Somewhere where a family could live an apparently normal, quiet life without any of the pressures or the pleasures of our modern-day world. That's the story on one level. There are others.

In the past events could be beautiful and wonderful, or terrible and tragic. Sometimes all together. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so they say. But that beholder must be careful to be looking in the right direction, and at the right time.