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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    Celestine: crystals as blue as the sky

    April 19, 2014

    Enhydro agate – a secret water chamber

    January 6, 2014

    Ossian’s Cave in Glen Coe

    November 26, 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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    Windows: Edinburgh Castle

    January 27, 2017

    Windows: Culross Palace

    July 31, 2017

    Trees 2: Sunlight

    November 27, 2015
  • 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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    Tullibardine Chapel

    September 1, 2016

    St Brendan’s Seat

    March 20, 2022

    St Andrew’s Auld Kirk, North Berwick

    December 9, 2014

"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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