The Dark Hedges, Co. AntrimThe Dark Hedges on Bregagh Road near Armoy, County Antrim. Planted in the eighteenth century as a grand approach to Gracehill House, these beech trees have spent the better part of three hundred years reaching towards each other across the road. Their pale, gnarled trunks lean inward at angles that seem almost deliberate, the branches locking together overhead to form a canopy that blocks most of the sky. I photographed this on a flat, overcast day,