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by Jo Woolf

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Christmas wishes

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Winter trees in Glen Roy

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From the River Awe to Loch Etive

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The old pinewoods in Glen Orchy

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The Kyle of Tongue: a battle, a hero’s grave and a cow with a gold coin

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New book: Voices of the Earth

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Plant-hunting in Sutherland

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Calanais

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A walk to St Columba’s Bay

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  • The Battle of Dunnichen

    May 20, 2013 /

    Dunnichen, Dun Nechtain, Nechtansmere - take your pick (or should that be Pict?) We don't know where this battle took place, but we know one thing: the Picts were delighted with the outcome!

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    St Adamnan’s Cross in Glen Lyon

    February 20, 2016

    The Pictish stone of Fowlis Wester

    August 5, 2016

    The Lerags Cross

    July 2, 2017
  • Windflowers – tears of Aphrodite

    May 17, 2013 /

    According to a Greek legend, wood anemones - or windflowers - sprang up where the tears of Aphrodite fell. A lovely story, although she must have wept quite a lot, poor girl!

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    The plants of Dollar Glen

    September 15, 2014

    The dog rose

    August 15, 2015

    The marsh fritillary

    June 26, 2013
  • Dun Beag: hilltop fortress

    May 3, 2013 /

    When the Picts chose to build a broch on this windswept hilltop in central Skye, they wanted it to be impregnable - and for good reasons.

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    Ossian, Fingal and the Falls of Lora

    July 19, 2023

    Castlerigg: out on the wild and windy moors

    March 9, 2015

    Ellen’s Isle

    September 16, 2015
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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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