The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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  • Ossian, Fingal and the Falls of Lora

    July 19, 2023 /

    Were the lives of legendary heroes played out to the sound of these waters?

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    Dun Carloway: strong and silent

    January 10, 2013

    Lochbuie Stone Circle and Moy Castle, Isle of Mull

    January 13, 2024

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

    December 14, 2023
  • Diarmuid and Grainne: a boar hunt and a tragic love story in Glen Lonan

    November 22, 2019 /

    Old legends lie soft as cobwebs across this landscape of cairns and standing stones

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    Scotland’s haunted castles: would you be spooked?

    October 10, 2013

    Inchbuie: an island of dreams

    January 15, 2013

    Tarbert – the ‘place of portage’

    August 12, 2018
  • The spirit of the alder

    August 23, 2015 /

    Lover of riverbanks and boggy places, the alder forms a close bond between earth and water. No wonder our ancestors revered its magic

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    The power of the elder

    June 21, 2019

    The song of the aspen

    December 5, 2016

    The gentleness of willow

    March 18, 2023
    New book

    "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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