twigs and branches already?

it’s a little early to be posting photos of bare branches. we will have plenty, some might say too much, of that in the coming months. but this is what caught me eye today.  a little volunteer sapling on the side of the road–it was on an on-ramp to a highway actually. i pulled to the side, put my hazard light on, and hopped out and lopped the branches before anyone even noticed. the flat plane of the branches. their repeating sinuous sweep. the white space created between them. it all spoke to me.