Nonfiction Story Idea

My goal with my writing is to be able to paint a scene so rich and vivid you are almost there without getting overly bored in the details. For efficiency’s sake I tap in on common human experiences so I don’t over elaborate in those areas. For example if I write, “Thom arched his neck back. Opened lungs release breath slowly pouring into the sky. Billowy wafts of vapor sail the atmosphere like a summer tuber nonchalantly floating down a lazy river. Light breaks from the sun and falls in glistening icicles plunking into the river illuminating its clear waters. The rivers ripples are piano keys and the sun’s rays are fingers landing on tiny breaking crests, orchestrating a visual melody. My sailing breath closes its eyes swaying back and forth to the tune as it climbs through the air. Pursing my lips, exhaling sharply, wind skitters away like shelves of snow scattered apart driven across solid lakes at the whims of violent breezes that crack like frozen whips bleeding cold into notches they leave in my bones.”
Hopefully the reader can relate to seeing his breath in the cold and become more comfortable with the scene I’m illustrating. I’d like to embody the moment where you see something beautiful and you are caught in that moment and make it as real in the reader’s mind as if they were actually there. Not having a story with a cadence that marches along to a steady cadence may seem counterproductive to some, but it's merely a goal of mine to be able to paint a scene with words which draws the reader into a vivid scene.
To practice for this piece I want to do an exercise that I have been thinking of for a while. I want to take an inanimate object or piece of nature and write a full one to two page description of its appearance, its effect on its surroundings and its effect on itself. The passage has to maintain interest and avoid repetition. For example I could take a piece of deck furniture in the sun and try to illustrate it in words using an entire page or more without deviating to any other of its surroundings. First I would like to see how far I can get solely describing the object’s physical characteristics. Then I would open the door to metaphors and comparisons and see how much longer I can make it.
This exercise may not sound relevant concerning story writing. If I can make a one to two page illustration of a single object and make it sound interesting enough to hold my attention, than with practice I could deduce the same page to a paragraph or even a sentence that when compiled together with other elements of the same scene would vividly emerge the reader in the scene.
I almost forgot to mention what I am going to write about. I will choose an outdoor scene. Either a hike in the fall or someplace outdoors at night in the summer. There are limitless amounts of things to describe in nature. I will try to weave in some story and inner meaning that will be far less obvious than the illustration of the scene.