A thousand curses on my inability to put photos from Pete's camera onto my blog and my lack of the werewithall to work out how to.
Today me, Laura and Dan from North Wales went on a search for the Ormiston Yew Tree, a yew tree near Ormiston that is recorded as existing in 1476, meaning that it is at least 571 years old, and is almost certainly significantly older. Yew trees are rather impressive looking things at the worst of times, but this particular yew tree is quite something. It has exactly three main trunks and countless other branches and limbs which either spread to the ground and re-grow or grow upwards to form a massive canopy that from the outside just looks like a huge bush with a doorway in it. I fail to do it any kind of justice in my description, but if you ever find yourself in Ormiston you realy should go and see it. It is practically unknown apart from a few East Lothianers and is not signposted at all. The only evidence we could find that it existed was a photograph and some history of the tree on the Ormiston information board.
I have found on the internet two not terribly good pictures of the tree with some rather strange people under it, who seem to be called Annette and John. The site I found them on says that the tree is 1500 years old.
Little else to report, except that the Co-op in Ormiston charges far too much for their sultana slabs.
posted by Leo Glaister @ 9:18 AM
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