the desert dies

Sujet du devoir

Everywhere the thorn trees glinted and dripped with moisture , and the grey dust had turned into a rippled carpet of ochre mud that was plastered over the tree trunk

This sentence is rich in description . How might you write it in a less descriptive way , so that it communicated only facts ?

Où j'en suis dans mon devoir

J'ai fais toutes les autres question mais je bloque a celui ci pouvez vous m'aider svp