More impermanent art on fallen leaves. Here, a sycamore. It’s a bit like writing a letter then burning it. There’s something very healing in drawing on a leaf, with certain intentions and feelings in mind, and then letting it go. Under the tree that it fell from, then into the river that keeps it alive. A very meaningful little ritual I can’t recommend enough. 💚
While it's very sad that the #sycamore on #Hadrian's wall was cut down, the good news is that the tree is not dead, the root system is still intact and will send up regrowth shoots. Selectively prune the '#coppice' to one stem and it will come back rapidly.
One of the UK’s most photographed trees has been “deliberately felled” in an apparent act of vandalism.
A 16 year old teenager has been arrested for allegedly cutting down the Sycamore Gap tree next to the historic UNESCO World Heritage site Hadrian’s Wall, built 1,900 years ago to guard the furthest northwestern frontier of the Roman Empire.
I’m gutted at the news of the felling of the iconic #Sycamore at Sycamore Gap on #HadriansWall last night. Made globally famous by the scene in Costner’s #RobinHood Prince of Thieves. So it seems churlish, indeed very ‘I have my environmental history hat on’, to note that the Sycamore was introduced into #Britain in the 15-16th century, at least 300 years after the 3rd Crusade, the period in which the #Film was set. None of this detracts, of course, from the utter vandalism of last night’s act.