The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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  • The dark mill of Coilebar

    August 25, 2018 /

    A centuries-old mill in the heart of Knapdale Forest... and a refuge for a woman fleeing for her life

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    Standing stone near Loch Ederline

    July 27, 2017

    Tarbert – the ‘place of portage’

    August 12, 2018

    Culross Palace

    June 14, 2016
  • The Hazel Tree – now on the west coast!

    January 31, 2018 /

    A new home for us, and for The Hazel Tree, on the coast of Argyll

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    Orkney: St Magnus’ Cathedral, Kirkwall

    November 27, 2023

    From the River Awe to Loch Etive

    November 21, 2025

    The ivy green

    November 20, 2022
  • Early summer gold

    June 12, 2015 /

    Walking around Taynish woods in the early summer sunshine, I was reminded of these words by the American poet Robert Frost. The newly-emerged leaves of the oak trees were making the hillside glow with a rich gold.   It won’t last long – every day will see them turn a slightly deeper green, as summer gathers pace – but while it lasts, it is pure magic. “Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.” Robert Frost

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    A poem for Burns Night

    January 25, 2014

    ‘November’ by John Clare

    November 3, 2015

    ‘All nature has a feeling’ by John Clare

    October 30, 2016

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