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There is a difference between showing and telling. Telling involves little description but showing involves a fully developed scene, a picture painted with words. See if you can see the difference in the following paragraphs.

Paragraph 1

I saw an old man who had a lot of energy. He walked near the pool. He was dressed nicely, and he walked around, looking this way and that.

Paragraph 2

Just then I noticed a small, oldish man walking briskly around the edge of the pool. He was immaculately dressed in a white suit, and he walked very quickly with little bouncing strides, pushing himself high up onto his toes with each step. He had on a large creamy Panama hat, and he came bouncing along the side of the pool, looking at the people and the chairs.

(from "Man from the South" by Ronald Dahl)

In your writing, you must includes sensory detail. You must show how something looks, sounds, smells, tastes or feels. In this way you will be providing sensory detail. You are trying to get what is in your mind, details and all, into the heads of the readers. The more details you paint on your story, the easier it will be for the reader to understand.