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
  • Photography

    Windows: Old Castle Lachlan

    February 4, 2017 /

    Something to brighten a rainy day… the view from a window in Old Castle Lachlan on Loch Fyne. This is the ancient stronghold of the Maclachlans of Strathlachlan, and it certainly has some stories to tell.  You can read more in this article on The Hazel Tree. Photo © Jo Woolf

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    Bracklinn Falls

    May 6, 2016

    Looking again at lichen

    September 3, 2013

    Golden water

    June 3, 2016
  • History,  Scottish castles

    Old Castle Lachlan: loyalty and loss

    October 23, 2016 /

    Ghosts of horses tend to come in different guises, some of them benevolent and some of them more inclined towards the Apocalypse. The story that is linked with Old Castle Lachlan is moving and gentle, touched by the sadness of Culloden

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    St Moluag’s Cathedral on the Isle of Lismore

    March 1, 2016

    The stone circles of Fortingall

    May 11, 2014

    Silent voices of Arichonan

    August 8, 2018
  • Churches, abbeys and chapels,  History

    Kilmorie Chapel by Loch Fyne

    October 17, 2016 /

    Carpeted with moss, this ancient burial ground of the Maclachlans could hold distant echoes of an early saint

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    St Brendan and the Garvellachs

    February 24, 2012

    St Andrews: the legacy of St Rule

    March 14, 2014

    Rosslyn Chapel: catching the light

    March 9, 2016

"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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