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By Hole Ousia Posted on March 12, 2021March 7, 2023

Secret of the Yew Tree

‘If we are on a path of initiation into the secrets of landscape, earthlore and healing, the yew tree can become a powerful heirophant.’ In the middle of the yew … Continue reading Secret of the Yew Tree

Categories: gardens, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 1943, 700 year old layering Yew, a Miracle of Yew Regeneration, a modern ruin, abandoned, Abbotshall, Abercairney, Aberthuven, Adam and Eve, Alexander McCall Smith, Alexander Moncrieffe, Alexander Naysmith, An ancient child, ancient, Andrew MacFarlane., Antiquary, Ardnamurchan, Argyll, Arm Chair, Arrochar, Auchendrane, Auchendrane yew, Ayrshire, bannister, Bernera, Berneray, Bienn a' Bhacaidh, Bienna Bhacaidh, Bilbliotheca Abscondita, Bower, brainlessness, Brideshead Revisited, Bridge of Allan, castle, chapel of the Yew trees, child, circular yew, Clan Fraser, concentration camps, Condie, connection, Craigends, Craigends Yew, Crieff, Crookston castle, Culfargie, curves, Dalmellington, Dalserf, Dalserf parish Church, Dame Helen's castle, Dovecot, Dr Peter Gordon, Dunaskin, Dunwich, Earlshall, East Lothian, Eccles Church Tower, Edinburgh, Evelyn Waugh, exploration, Fife, fire, Ford, formal, Fortingal, Fortingal Yew, Fortingall, Fortingall Yew, Fraser Clan, garden, gardesns, Gask, gate, gatepiers, gateposts, gateway, Geese, gentle gardener, Glasgow, Glenhurich, Graeme, Great Montrose, Grove, hares would yet breed on his hearthstone, headless, Hedge, hedging, heirophant, Helen Liston Hardie, Hermit, herring, Hole Ousia, How to stop time, humanity, I Vow, I Vow castle, I Vow Yew, Inchbrakie, Incorrigibly plural, island, It is by living we learn, James Joyce, Jehanne Mehta, Kate McNiven, Keirs castle, Kilneuair, Kirkcaldy, Laight castle, landcape architecture, landscape, Landscape Architecture, Leon Eisenberg, light, Lismore, Little Spartan, Loch Awe, Loch Lomond, Loch Ness, Lochan na h' Iubhraich, Lochawe, Lochnell, Lord Darnley, Loss, MacFarlane, Mansion, Margaret Mary Scott, Marquis of Montrose, Mary Queen of Scots, Matt Haig, Max Sebald, Maze, memory, mindlessness, MLA distinction, model, Monzie, Musaem Clausum, national Trust for Scotland, Nature, New Condie, Nigel Tranter, Oliphant, Omphalos, Omphalos films, painter, Patrick Geddes, Patrick Graeme, Paul Greenwood, Persecuting Raploch, Perthshire, Peter Gordon, Peter J Gordon, poem, poet, poetry, Pollok House, polymath, progress hardly broke its stride, Rabbie Burns, Raploch, rebel antiquary, Renfrewshire, ring, Robert the Bruce, Rockingham, Rockingham elephants, ruin, ruins, Scientists chop years off ancient yew trees, Scotland, Scull, Secret of the Yew Tree, sermons, silver darlings, Social maverick, Somerleyton, St Columba, St Columba's Yew, St Giles, St Moluag, stairs, stairway, Stenton, Stirling-Maxwell, taxus baccata, The Abbotshall Yew, The Antiquary, The Auchendrane Yew, The Brownie's Cell, the Chapel of the Yew Trees, the Crookston yew tree, The Culfargie Yew, The Elanvow Preservation Fund, The faded glories of his Clan, The Fraser Yew, The Gentle Gardener, The Giant's Garden, The Inchbrakie Yew, the largest Yew tree in Scotland, the lion of the secession churc, The little loch of the yew grove, the living hedge, The Monastery, the ormiston Yew, The Raploch Yew, The Rebel Antiquary, The Rings of Saturn, The speaking hedge, The Wallace Yew, the yew tree can become a powerful heirophant, These are the hands, Thomas Browne, three castles, three sisters, topiary, village, Vivendo Discimus, W G Sebald, Walter Scott, When Harry met Mary under the Yew tree, William Hamilton, William Wallace, William Wordsworth, Winfried Georg Sebald, witch, Would you Adam and Eve it?, writer, WWII, Wyndeham Le strange, Yew, Yew hedge, Yew tree, Yew trees, Yews

By Hole Ousia Posted on September 13, 2020March 3, 2023

The Ormiston Yew

I visited the Ormiston Yew on Monday 7th September 2020: In the middle of the Yew: To play this short film please click here or on the image above

Categories: Architecture, gardens, Omphalos films, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterdayTags: 1727, 1744, 7 September 2020, ancient, Antiquary, Byershill, Charles Bell, Dr Peter Gordon, Earl of Hopetoun, East Lothian, Fairnalie, gardener, gentle gardener, George Wishart, Hole Ousia, husbandry, I visited the Ormiston Yew on Monday 7th September 2020, In the middle of the yew, James Miller, John Cockburn, John Cockburn of Ormiston, Lament for the Earl of Hopetoun, letters to his gardener, Lord of the Admiralty, Monument, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Ormiston, Ormiston Hall, Ormiston Yew, Ormistoun, Ormistoun Hall, Ormistoun Yew, Peter Gordon, Ralph Abercrombie, rebel antiquary, ruin, ruins, Rutherford, Scotland, Secret of the Yew Tree, sir Ralph Abercromby, Social maverick, St Giles, The Antiquary, The Gentle Gardener, The largest tree [probably] in Scotland, The Rebel Antiquary, The Rings of Saturn, Tullibody House, Vivendo Discimus, W G Sebald, Wishart's Yew, Yew, Yew tree

By Hole Ousia Posted on August 26, 2017January 31, 2023

A child. An incredibly ancient child.

I recently read the novel ‘How to stop time’ by Matt Haig and in a brief passage of this he talked about an ancient tree that had outlived any sentient … Continue reading A child. An incredibly ancient child.

Categories: Ageing, Bridge of Allan, gardens, Medical writings, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: A child. An incredibly ancient child., a maker of beautiful books, Alexander McCall Smith, ancient, Antiquary, Bridge of Allan, child, Dr Peter Gordon, Drumdruills, Drumdruils, Edinburgh, films about trees, Fortingal Yew, Fortingall Yew, Hole Ousia, How to stop time, In the middle of the yew, magically reached out, Magically reaches out, Matt Haig, Omphalos, Omphalos films, oor auldest relative, Peter Gordon, Peter J Gordon, rebel antiquary, Secret of the Yew Tree, Social maverick, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, Yew, Your films are very beautiful

By Hole Ousia Posted on November 23, 2015January 24, 2023

Oor auldest relative

The Fortingall Yew. I recently read the novel ‘How to stop time’ by Matt Haig and in a brief passage of this he talked about an ancient tree that had … Continue reading Oor auldest relative

Categories: Ageing, Medical Education, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: A Fortingall attraction, ageing, Alexander McCall Smith, An incredibly ancient child, ancient, Antiquary, BJPsych, Bridge of Allan, British Journal of Psychiatry, By yellow lights tormented, child, death, Dr Peter Gordon, Edinburgh, Eliot Slater, Fortingal, Fortingal Yew, Fortingall, Fortingall Yew, Hole Ousia, How to stop time, Iain Crichton Smith, longevity, Matt Haig, Mossgrove garden, oor auldest relative, Perthsire, Peter Gordon, Peter J Gordon, poisoning, Psychiatry, rebel antiquary, Scientists chop years off ancient yew trees, Scotland, Secret of the Yew Tree, Social maverick, The Antiquary, the oldest tree, The Rebel Antiquary, Two Girls Singing, Yew, Yew tree, Yews, Your films are very beautiful

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