The Hazel Tree

by Jo Woolf

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  • The ancient oak woods of Taynish

    July 2, 2015 /

    A landscape that is a living piece of Scotland's heritage: these oak woods have been growing in Knapdale for 7,000 years

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    The enchantment of the rowan

    September 9, 2013

    The bridge of the fairy foxgloves

    June 8, 2013

    Lochbuie Stone Circle and Moy Castle, Isle of Mull

    January 13, 2024
  • Midsummer’s Eve

    June 20, 2015 /

    Looking for some words to celebrate midsummer, I found this lovely extract which casts a magic spell… “Out of this wood do not desire to go: Thou shalt remain here, whether thou wilt or no. I am a spirit of no common rate; The summer still doth tend upon my state; And I do love thee:  therefore, go with me; I’ll give thee fairies to attend on thee, And they shall fetch thee jewels from the deep, And sing while thou on pressed flowers dost sleep.” Titania, ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Photo © Colin Woolf

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    An Adlestrop moment

    June 29, 2013

    Early summer gold

    June 12, 2015

    A poem for Burns Night

    January 25, 2014
  • The Birnam Oak

    May 11, 2015 /

    Did this majestic tree - or the forest in which it stood - inspire Shakespeare with an idea for 'Macbeth'?

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    Stronefield: a mill, an abandoned settlement, and a lost Jacobite’s cave

    August 15, 2021

    The enchantment of the rowan

    September 9, 2013

    The cuckoo in his mantle grey

    May 26, 2024
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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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