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
  • Photography

    Windows: Culross Palace

    July 31, 2017 /

    Distinctive dormer windows in the roof of Culross Palace

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    Trees 2: Sunlight

    November 27, 2015

    Celebrating the texture and colour of rocks

    June 12, 2018

    Autumn in Glen Garry

    October 20, 2016
  • Photography

    Windows: Dunfermline Abbey

    March 9, 2017 /

    The third in my photo-series is this beautiful stained glass window by Douglas Strachan in the old nave of Dunfermline Abbey. It was commissioned in 1916 by the famous Dunfermline-born businessman Andrew Carnegie in memory of his parents, William Carnegie and Margaret Morrison. The image symbolises the dawn of a new age, and features a red-robed poet or seer sitting on the ramparts of a ruined fortress, gazing over a city towards distant hills that are lit by the rays of sunrise.  Above him, two female figures representing East and West are meeting in peace, beneath the encircling wings of an angel.   A banner in gold script (about a third…

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    Trees 4: monochrome

    December 13, 2015

    Autumn in Glen Garry

    October 20, 2016

    A forgotten summer

    October 3, 2014
  • 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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    Portraits of a cold climate

    April 3, 2014

    Random rocks: Skipness

    February 22, 2015

    Beeches in Sutherland's Grove

    October 5, 2016
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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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