Smallest tree

Like many of my stories, this one started while I was walking on a day when the sun seemed nonexistent, and light seemed to disappear from the day a minute after it came. Stupidity is hard to define, and I'm a lazy guy, so I don't care to think about it much -- but I'm certainly ignorant. One of the things I'm ignorant about is the sun and the moon. I don't know why the sun hides away during parts of the year while it's there mostly forever during others. My job is accepting that they forever do this dance, and it's one of those things that makes you look at the world differently. There are specific trees only observable during this time of year that I never notice when the weather is warmer. Perhaps they're invisible, or they disappear. While walking to my parents, I noticed the smallest of those trees. If you allow me to be honest, it was a lot bigger than all the other trees of the same kind I had ever seen, and honestly, I'm not even sure if it was one of those. But it was a tree I noticed, I'm reasonably sure.