The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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Latest blog posts on The Hazel Tree

  • Torinturk and the fort of the black dog
  • Before the rain
  • St Brendan’s Seat
  • Blackthorn: the darkest wood
  • Fincharn Castle on Loch Awe

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

    Carnelian

    September 27, 2014 /

    Ranging from pale yellow to deep orange-red, this semi-precious stone was a popular choice in Victorian jewellery

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    The Parallel Roads of Glen Roy

    November 13, 2021

    Celebrating the texture and colour of rocks

    June 12, 2018

    Fossils at Carsaig Bay

    September 18, 2015
  • Photography

    A tree of fire

    October 5, 2013 /

    Autumn has set light to this beautiful old mountain ash, photographed in the hills above Braemar.

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    Looking again at lichen

    September 3, 2013

    Scottish islands: Lewis

    August 4, 2015

    Trees 6: white

    February 3, 2016
  • History

    Fraser’s Bridge in Glen Clunie

    October 4, 2013 /

    Surrounded by glorious mountains, this lovely little bridge carries an old military road over the Clunie Water.

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    Rosslyn Chapel: catching the light

    March 9, 2016

    Blackness Castle

    July 22, 2017

    Kilvickeon: a forgotten sanctuary

    December 14, 2011

"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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