The Oak Papers and birds dragonflies overhead

and birds dragonflies overhead

As the centuries sweep by

but the two-acre patch held more potential

and come quickly

The Oak Papers and birds dragonflies overhead"Some five years ago, I sought solace from the ways of the world by stepping into the embrace of an ancient oak tree . . . From the first meeting, there grew a strange sense of attachment I did not consciously recognise until I later began to realise the significance that trees, and oak trees especially, can have in our lives." In The Oak Papers, James Canton shares two years spent in the steady presence of the Honywood Oak, a vast, centuries old tree