Dunning Glen

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One of my favoured local woodlands, just a few minutes’ drive from home, is Dunning Glen. Starting from the village, stroll up the road, round the corner and through the small doorway into the woods where trees and rivers play.

There are some steep bits, but plenty of the oak trees in particular have a gnarly character.

Herewith, some photos:

  • Appreciating shape and form: strong lines of an oak tree.
  • Appreciating shape and form: a large oak tree standing amidst a sea of green grass and bracken.
  • Appreciating shape and form: a dead branch
  • Appreciating shape and form: the base of a split oak tree in a sea of green grass, white daisies and purple blebells.
  • Appreciating shape and form: a split (coppiced?) oak tree.
  • Appreciating shape and form: strong lines of an oak tree

My favourite from this particular afternoon was this oak – some of its branches having rotted and fallen off:

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods

The latter is available as prints, cards, masks and other products, via my main website: there is a pleasure in the pathless woods.

Glen Affric: Trees (4)

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Lots of Scots Pine trees around Glen Affric.

Favourite Trees can be seen from near the carpark above the River Walk around the glen – these are the same pines that appear in Heather and Trees.

Gnarly struck me as a pleasant old character, enjoying the morning sun, on the way up the side of Coille na Feithe Buidhe to the memorial.

The trees is Pinus sylvestris are to be found along the south side of Loch Affric, on the path that ultimately brings you out in Kintail near Skye.