We’re very excited to report that we’re now in the thick of planning for the first colour transformation at the first and most westerly of the seven trees: the Wasdale Oak. We won’t be wrapping the tree. We won’t be painting it. The colour intervention involves the draping of over 100 metres of yellow cloth… Read More
Did you know that the Anglo Saxons had 471 different words for trees and woods? Or that the 1068 Domesday survey revealed that 15% of England was wooded (today it’s just 14% in the whole of the UK)? These two facts were shared by the Woodland Trust’s Matt Larsen-Daw at the recent Charter Champion day in… Read More
in secret untrod land of night hawthorn riding stonebone waves of an ancient sea spirits are starlight At the beginning of the project we knew that we wanted to visit the trees during all of the seasons to experience their landscape in different types of weathers. Feel what they have to endure through the annual… Read More
A gathering of poems about trees into a woody anthology – contributions are coming in. Read More
Time is wrapped in moss, bud, lichen.
Gnarled bark holds secrets of years
for a wild tree never tells … Read More
Ancient and veteran trees spark curiosity among almost anyone interested in trees – and while it’s certainly hugely impressive to think of a tree having leant shade to men and women 800 years ago or more, is age really the most important thing? Read More
One of the joys of walking and being outside is the small world. What’s at your feet. We stop, frequently, to look around us. And we get low, very low, to look at the tiny universe Read More
The Long View cameras range from traditional large format to quirky underwater compacts. Read More
We drove in. The lake was grey. The screes grey, the sky grey. Rain. Wind whipping the water into spray. All grey and bracken brown. Read More
When the sun dips in midwinter its light is gentle, and magically transformative. Read More
THE LONG VIEW