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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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    The Parallel Roads of Glen Roy

    November 13, 2021
    Clachtoll broch

    Clachtoll broch

    July 4, 2026

    Kildalton Cross: guardian of another time

    March 11, 2012
  • 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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    The gentleness of willow

    March 18, 2023

    Red deer painting

    January 13, 2016

    Kilneuair Chapel

    January 1, 2021
  • 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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    Midwinter hope

    December 4, 2013

    A poem for Burns Night

    January 25, 2014

    ‘Song of the trees’

    December 14, 2017

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