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
  • Colin's easel

    Woodcock pin-feather paintings – with gold leaf

    December 28, 2015 /

    A pair of woodcock pin-feather paintings with a new element: gold leaf

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    Woodcock pin-feather painting – in progress

    September 6, 2014

    Pin-feather painting – a new level

    June 14, 2012

    New painting: Golden plover

    June 20, 2013
  • Colin's easel

    New woodcock painting: ‘The Secret’

    March 7, 2014 /

    How many people have seen a woodcock carrying its chick in flight? Colin's lovely new painting captures just that... and it's painted with a woodcock's feather!

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    New painting: Golden plover

    June 20, 2013

    Tales of the riverbank

    January 15, 2014

    Brown trout painting – now finished!

    January 25, 2014
  • Wildlife & Nature

    Cockshut – lost in the shadows of twilight

    April 8, 2013 /

    The origin of 'cockshut', an age-old term for dusk, lies in the secretive habits of woodcock...

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    Torinturk and the fort of the black dog

    May 22, 2022

    Honeysuckle

    September 6, 2021

    Stronefield: a mill, an abandoned settlement, and a lost Jacobite’s cave

    August 15, 2021
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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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