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
  • Wildlife & Nature

    Rain

    June 13, 2018 /

    After weeks of dryness and warmth, the trees can sense a change in the wind

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    Marsh marigold: the yellow plant of Beltane

    April 29, 2016

    The song of the aspen

    December 5, 2016

    Early Purple Orchid

    May 26, 2014
  • Photography

    Raindrops on birch twigs

    April 15, 2016 /

    Water has endless beauty, so I thought it would make a great subject for a new photo-series. My first choice is this lovely image of dripping birch branches in the woods around Bracklinn Falls near Callander.   A photo of the falls themselves is lined up to appear soon – and they were spectacular, thundering down through the gorge after a few days of torrential rain. Photo © Jo Woolf Read about ‘The magic of the birch‘ on The Hazel Tree, or pop over to Folklore Thursday’s new website to read my guest post on birch, ‘The Lady of the Wood‘.

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    Frost in Cwm Cynfal

    February 15, 2013

    Random rocks: beach sculpture

    March 24, 2015

    White cottage at Arisaig

    July 17, 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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