description via minutiae

Briefly describe a natural setting in minute details. - While we were sleeping the night had been busy sealing all the town up with the utmost care. Like a careful parent wrapping presents, no corner was left bare. Needing no tape to seal the coming day up in a layer of ice, the storm had made a fragile casting of the valley. For all that hard work, my first step out the door began the ruination of it all. The ice gasped in pain as my clumsy foot destroyed the perfection of it all. Later the neighborhood children would play sleuth and trace my predawn footsteps, perfectly preserved, wondering what murderous vagrant had passed through so early. While I stared out the my work window watching the merciless sun wipe it all away.