5th November 2025
Stoke Bottom, A Holy Well and Paper Mill – To The Trees Edition #69
The dark of Samhain is upon us.The weeks are strewn across the lawn, days blown along on the autumn winds like leaves tossed off branches, dancing for moments before submitting…
7th October 2025
The Mists of Avalon – To The Trees Edition #68
As I begin writing this newsletter, the harvest moon makes a thin sliver in the dusk sky, like a tiny slit in the firmament through which the sun’s light seeps…
7th September 2025
Late Summer – To The Trees Edition #67
As the last sips of Summer’s heat rises it is kissed by the cool lips of the lunging fall. The view over Avalon becomes less floral and foliaged and all…
9th August 2025
First Harvest & Stockhill Woods – To The Trees Edition #66
On the isle of Glastonbury, the harvest is already happening. In a friend’s garden, I watch pigeons gorge on elderberries. They bob and pluck at the dark clusters for hours,…
10th July 2025
Summers Past – To The Trees Edition #64
Out on the land, it feels like there is a pause. The striving to create slows, and attention is turned to developing that which has appeared. Having toiled for many…
11th June 2025
A Solstice Pilgrimage – To The Trees Edition #63
https://youtu.be/G6Das38aXZg During this time of tiny fruits and towering flowers, when I’m laid down in the fields below the swaying grasses watching the narrow stems balance parasols of hogweed, cow…
12th May 2025
The Green – To The Trees Edition #62
May is so welcome. All the greens have arrived in a cascade of hues too plentiful to discern individually. The up-coiling hedgerows writhe with the colour, a plethora of verdant…
12th April 2025
Spring Is Everywhere – To The Trees Edition #61
All of a sudden, Spring is everywhere. And I have not the eyes and ears sufficient to take it all in; nor the wit or words to record and share…
12th February 2025
An Imbolc Tree Walk – To The Trees Edition #60
Hazel Flowers This is spring—its very first inklings sprinkled throughout the hedgerows of Stone Down. At first glance, these early February days might seem like any other week of winter—bitter,…
