Last night…

It does this sometimes in the Spring and Fall. As the sun is setting, there is some combination of clouds and ??? that seem to bend those last rays to light the tree tops in my woods and in the valley beyond.

I watch, amazed. I turn toward the West and can see through the woods that the sun is low, but the light hits the valley tree tops, not the mountains. Sometimes, it creeps up the mountain to be alpenglow, but last evening, it turned the valley gold and then just faded away.

Evening light: Valley gold.