Week # 2- Dead Yet Alive

There's this large, old, pomegranate tree in my backyard that I've had at my house ever since I can remember. It started off as a stick and over the years it flourished to the point where it took over the backyard. When the season is right, this particular tree is outstanding to look at. Come Spring the leaves are a bright lime green, in summer the leaves turn a dark green and as fall hits the leaves turn a gorgeous yellow color. Unfortunately, when winter arrives the tree loses all of it's leaves and becomes a poor, naked looking wretch. Right now this eye sore stands in my backyard as some looming, grotesque thing with spiked, sharp edges for branches that point in every direction. It resembles a tree you'd typically find in a horror movie. If I didn't know any better, I would say it was dead and lifeless. Yet when I walked into the backyard, late this afternoon after I got home from school, the sun hit the tree in such a way as to give life back into the seemingly "dead" tree. Usually the "life" of the tree is shown with the countless leaves it has during the Spring to Fall seasons. So I was fascinated to see such an unusual sight of how the "life" of the tree was brought back just by how the sun's warm glow hit it. It ceased to be a dark, morbid looking tree and became a vibrant tree once more.