First snow

morning sun, suffused by cloud,
glowing at the brink of the hill,
casts a shaft of yellow light
on the pale trunk of
the bare sycamore

birds in the branches above
are singing, too


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This isn't the sycamore; it's an ash. By the time I got back outside with my camera, the light had shifted and much of the snow melted.