The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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Latest blog posts on The Hazel Tree

  • Deirdre and the Sons of Uisneach
  • Torinturk and the fort of the black dog
  • Before the rain
  • St Brendan’s Seat
  • Blackthorn: the darkest wood

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

    Herkimer diamonds

    April 11, 2015 /

    Prized for their clarity, these double-pointed crystals have some fascinating bubbles trapped inside!

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    Coastal relics from the last Ice Age

    April 14, 2014

    Celestine: crystals as blue as the sky

    April 19, 2014

    Ossian’s Cave in Glen Coe

    November 26, 2015
  • Photography

    Random rocks: Degnish

    April 9, 2015 /

    The Earth has been playing squash with these rocks on the coast of Argyll!

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    Trees 5: Reflections

    January 12, 2016

    Scottish islands: Islay

    June 30, 2015

    Raindrops on birch twigs

    April 15, 2016
  • Photography

    Random rocks: beach sculpture

    March 24, 2015 /

    The waves can create wonderful flowing sculptures, like this one on Knoydart

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    Trees 4: monochrome

    December 13, 2015

    St John’s Church, Ballachulish

    December 8, 2014

    Random rocks: Loch Linnhe

    February 9, 2015
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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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