The Tree

I was walking through the desert in White Sands New Mexico this week and I spotted this tree in the distance. It looked very interesting and a little scary so I went off the path to go take some pictures of it.  The branches were dry and they sprouted in all directions towards the stormy skies.  The sun began to peek out of the clouds and lit the branches and the trunk of the tree but everything else around it was still dark.  It was a scary tree.