My son, a teenager in shades, hurtles along the gravel of the drive and skids to a halt.
"Dad, I've got something to show you." He says.
I leave the lamb cooking on the barbecue and go with him. he cycles slowly as I walk beside him and we chat easily about rugby, guitars and the time that my best friend and I celebrated finishing our 'O' Levels by going on an eighty mile road trip on our bikes.
We are just outside the village and he points at the sky,
"Look Dad, isn't the sunset great!"

He has given me such a gift before. On our very last family holiday together he and I have stayed behind while my ex - wife and daughters have gone to listen to some traditional music being played at a local pub. I think that day the weather had been awful but all of a sudden, as it can in the Hebrides, it had broken while he was outside playing. Again he had ran in and again he had insisted that I followed him but then I had a camera to capture it with.

Scalpay Sunset