I like this. I love photography, and stormclouds and dead trees are a particular favourite topic of mine, so I found it very easy to visualize your words. Having siad that, your line "It slowly fades away leaving only a memory which too will someday die and fade away." might work better as this:

"It slowly crumbles away, leaving only a memory which too will someday fade away."

I don't think you need to place too much emphasis on the tree's death as it's specified so forcefully in the previous life.

That was great. Best imagery i've heard. Really helped to show what you were talking about. I understood ur theory too. Thats rather a shoker by itself. :P. Take care