The Hazel Tree

The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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Latest blog posts on The Hazel Tree

  • Before the rain
  • St Brendan’s Seat
  • Blackthorn: the darkest wood
  • Fincharn Castle on Loch Awe
  • Looking for a fairy portal

Latest blog posts for RSGS

Alexander Kellas - 'the most modest man that ever travelled the Himalayas'
Jane Digby el-Mezrab: from ballroom conquests to bedouin camps
Sir Everard im Thurn and an expedition to 'The Lost World'
Straight up the Prow: Roraima by the hardest route
  • Geology,  Photography

    Celebrating the texture and colour of rocks

    June 12, 2018 /

    Celebrating the beauty and diversity of our local geology in these photos by Verity Sansom

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    Glen Orchy – an old bridge, a magical stone and some desperate frogs

    December 29, 2014

    Carnelian

    September 27, 2014

    Ossian’s Cave in Glen Coe

    November 26, 2015
  • Photography

    Windows: Culross Palace

    July 31, 2017 /

    Distinctive dormer windows in the roof of Culross Palace

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    Frost in Cwm Cynfal

    February 15, 2013

    Trees 2: Sunlight

    November 27, 2015

    Random rocks: Loch Linnhe

    February 9, 2015
  • Photography

    Windows: Dunfermline Abbey

    March 9, 2017 /

    The third in my photo-series is this beautiful stained glass window by Douglas Strachan in the old nave of Dunfermline Abbey. It was commissioned in 1916 by the famous Dunfermline-born businessman Andrew Carnegie in memory of his parents, William Carnegie and Margaret Morrison. The image symbolises the dawn of a new age, and features a red-robed poet or seer sitting on the ramparts of a ruined fortress, gazing over a city towards distant hills that are lit by the rays of sunrise.  Above him, two female figures representing East and West are meeting in peace, beneath the encircling wings of an angel.   A banner in gold script (about a third…

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    Windows: Edinburgh Castle

    January 27, 2017

    Trees 4: monochrome

    December 13, 2015

    Portraits of a cold climate

    April 3, 2014
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"To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature."

Thomas Hardy, 'Under the Greenwood Tree'
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