Laund Oak - Bolton Abbey

The Laund oak, here bending rainbows out of sunlight, is an 800 year old oak, one of the oldest trees in Yorkshire. I was last here 4 years ago, and the oak has lost some of it's north side since then, but it's weird and wyrdful beauty still stands intact. 

O never harm the dreaming world, 

the world of green, the world of leaves, 

but let its million palms unfold 

the adoration of the trees.