Field guide No. 737

In a snowy orchard, one bare old tree holds a whole cloud of snow in its branches, piled where leaves would be. The others make do with frost.

Suspended snow in a bare orchard

The snow stayed up.

In a snowy orchard, one bare old tree holds a whole cloud of snow in its branches, piled where leaves would be. The others make do with frost.

Field noteSnow does settle on branches. Settling in a heap the size of a cloud, with no branch under most of it, is the stretch.

Specimen
No. 737
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Physics
Where it doesn’t exist
An orchard in deep winter.
Nearest existing relative
An old apple tree.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Surreal

Also possible, also breaking physics