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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…

Matt Witt

Glastonbury Tor Nature walks Spring Trees

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…

Matt Witt

Glastonbury Tor Nature walks Spring Trees

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,…

Matt Witt

Nature walks Spring Summer Trees Walking

3rd July 2023

Midsummer – To The Trees Edition #41

Summer Solstice Sunrise 2023 On the days surrounding the Solstice, the sunrise reaches its farthest point North on the horizon, bringing it into alignment with the axis of the…

Matt Witt

Nature walks Spring Summer Trees Walking

5th June 2023

Between Spring and Summer – To The Trees Edition #40

At this time of the year, the business of the trees’ apparently indiscriminate intimacy is drawing to a close - The male flowers of many trees, having fulfilled the purpose…

Matt Witt

Nature walks Spring Trees Walking

5th May 2023

Beltane in Glastonbury – To The Trees Edition #39

A verdant tide now rises; hedgerows swell, canopies expand, and verges brim and spill into the narrowing lanes of Stone down. The seal is finally broken and Spring’s envelope opens…

Matt Witt

Nature walks Spring Trees Walking Winter

5th April 2023

Waiting for Spring – To The Trees Edition #38

Of late, walking has seemed like a mission focused on treading Winter into the past and tugging Spring closer with each step. During February alone, I watched in the region…

Matt Witt

Nature walks Spring Trees Walking

14th May 2022

Close to Home – To The Trees Edition #30

The Redlands estate was built in the 1970s. It’s a red brick estate comprising detached and semi-detached houses and bungalows. The retro buildings are set back from the road and…

Matt Witt

Nature walks Spring Trees Walking

16th April 2022

From A Fair Field’s Corner – To The Trees Edition #29

“In the world of poetic experience it is depth that counts, not width. A gap in a hedge, a smooth rock surfacing a narrow lane, a view of a woody…

Matt Witt

Nature walks Spring Trees Walking

17th March 2022

Launching into Spring! – To The Trees Edition #28

At this time of the year everything seems possible. Spring’s optimism rocks me gently out of Winter’s sleep and as the grip of cold starts to lift we are blessed with the first…

Matt Witt

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