thesweetcheat
|
Ancient Tree Hunt
Dec 18, 2016, 19:37
|
Not really anything to do with TMA, but came across this earlier today and thought it would appeal:
http://www.ancient-tree-hunt.org.uk/discoveries/interactivemap
|
thelonious
|
Edited Dec 19, 2016, 07:48
Re: Ancient Tree Hunt
Dec 19, 2016, 07:26
|
|
Thanks for the link TSC. Lovely site. I'm reading Gossip from the forest (http://tinyurl.com/j8lmgtk) at the moment so fits nicely with that as I'm thinking trees at the moment.
|
ryaner
|
Re: Ancient Tree Hunt
Dec 19, 2016, 07:55
|
|
V. nice indeed, we love maps.
|
moss
|
Re: Ancient Tree Hunt - Sense of Place
Dec 19, 2016, 09:42
|
Love the trees, and as it is nearing the solstice, the natural world comes into focus though the weather be miserable, at least here in North Yorkshire.
There are things to listen to as well, Chris Whitehead ambient music - Wade's Causeway - It could be Neolithic/Roman or Saxon, perhaps it is all three. All I hear is the soft trickle of the water running over the stones and the imagined call of the curlew over Murk Mire Moor.....This music was recommended by 'The Smell of Water' who must live in this part of the world.
http://www.semperflorens.net/index.php/sf01sp-chris-whitehead-andrea-borghi.html
And then came across this by Andrew Norris, Chalk, words set to music, the poetry of Edward Thomas and a piece of chalk from Uffington.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1S-WcoWLoY
So thanks to Dog in fog with his blackbird babe nursed so beautifully by those two girls in 1978, and to tjj for reminding me about, Richard Jeffries.
|
Dog in fog
|
Edited Dec 19, 2016, 10:52
Re: Ancient Tree Hunt - Sense of Place
Dec 19, 2016, 10:02
|
|
moss wrote: Love the trees, and as it is nearing the solstice, the natural world comes into focus though the weather be miserable, at least here in North Yorkshire.
There are things to listen to as well, Chris Whitehead ambient music - Wade's Causeway - It could be Neolithic/Roman or Saxon, perhaps it is all three. All I hear is the soft trickle of the water running over the stones and the imagined call of the curlew over Murk Mire Moor.....This music was recommended by 'The Smell of Water' who must live in this part of the world.
http://www.semperflorens.net/index.php/sf01sp-chris-whitehead-andrea-borghi.html
And then came across this by Andrew Norris, Chalk, words set to music, the poetry of Edward Thomas and a piece of chalk from Uffington.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1S-WcoWLoY
So thanks to Dog in fog with his blackbird babe nursed so beautifully by those two girls in 1978, and to tjj for reminding me about, Richard Jeffries.
Ditto to all that.
Just to say, I'm a female dog (but not a bitch).
And bitch doesn't rhyme. ;-)
|
moss
|
Re: Ancient Tree Hunt - Sense of Place
Dec 19, 2016, 12:28
|
|
Duly noted;) ......
|
drewbhoy
|
Re: Ancient Tree Hunt
Dec 19, 2016, 17:33
|
|
ryaner wrote: V. nice indeed, we love maps.
Agreed, agreed!!!
|
tjj
|
Re: Ancient Tree Hunt
Dec 19, 2016, 18:18
|
|
thelonious wrote: Thanks for the link TSC. Lovely site. I'm reading Gossip from the forest ( http://tinyurl.com/j8lmgtk) at the moment so fits nicely with that as I'm thinking trees at the moment.
Yes, thanks tsc. Always good to talk about trees. Thelonious, I have Gossip from the Forest - sub-titled "the Tangles Roots of our Forest and Fairytales". A lovely book.
On trees, just wanted to say I live in car dominated town that has seen the M4 being built a stones throw from Richard Jefferies home (see other post). More recently green fields have been swallowed up by housing developments, retail parks and yet more roads. But I've noticed the developers often leave the old oaks standing - as I move around mostly on foot along paths and short-cuts I know where many of them are. Spotted another one today with its amazing bare branches reaching up into the sky and thought there also is a lost hedgerow or lane. Ancient trees are silent witnesses to what has been lost and sadly cannot be replaced by simply replanting.
|
thesweetcheat
|
Re: Ancient Tree Hunt
Dec 19, 2016, 19:11
|
Thanks both, I also agree about Gossip..., a lovely read indeed.
If you would like another countryish book recommend, I've every much enjoyed this: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11093452-deep-country
|
thesweetcheat
|
Re: Ancient Tree Hunt
Dec 19, 2016, 19:11
|
|
What you both said. Who doesn't love an interactive map of stuff?
|
