The Hazel Tree

The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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Birdsong and light

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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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  • Lady’s smock

    June 2, 2013 /

    In the spring sunshine, look out for this delicate wayside plant which is 'painting the meadows with delight'!

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    The bridge of the fairy foxgloves

    June 8, 2013

    A walk to St Columba’s Bay

    May 4, 2025

    A writing update

    July 12, 2024
  • 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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    The Dupplin Cross

    September 16, 2014

    Iona: Dun I and the Well of Eternal Youth

    May 1, 2023

    Ardchattan Priory: a place of serenity on Loch Etive

    July 10, 2014
  • 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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    Stronefield: a mill, an abandoned settlement, and a lost Jacobite’s cave

    August 15, 2021

    One of those beaches

    September 8, 2020

    Winter trees in Glen Roy

    December 17, 2025
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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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