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  • Dryburgh Abbey

    September 11, 2015 /

    The pink sandstone ruins of Dryburgh Abbey stand in their own little pool of time, listening for the gentle chant of prayers

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    Iona: Dun I and the Well of Eternal Youth

    May 1, 2023

    Orkney: the Earl’s Bu and some eventful Christmas feasts

    December 14, 2023

    Kilbride Kirk, Lerags

    July 4, 2017
  • The Birnam Oak

    May 11, 2015 /

    Did this majestic tree - or the forest in which it stood - inspire Shakespeare with an idea for 'Macbeth'?

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    Skye’s ‘coral beach’

    March 29, 2014

    12 Trees in Autumn

    October 1, 2017

    One of those beaches

    September 8, 2020
  • The darkness of the yew

    October 26, 2014 /

    Evergreen, toxic, and able to live for thousands of years… it's no wonder the yew tree was revered in ancient times.

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    Sycamore: colonist or custodian?

    October 6, 2017

    The enchantment of the rowan

    September 9, 2013

    Blackthorn: the darkest wood

    January 29, 2022
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Thomas Hardy, 'Under the Greenwood Tree'
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