A simple friendly ghost with two dot eyes floats at the center of a cobblestone village street, flanked by rows of carved jack-o'-lanterns with warm glowing faces. Quaint white clapboard cottages with lit windows and dormer roofs recede toward a softly glowing house at the vanishing point, beneath overhanging trees in rust and amber.

A string of warm lights hangs between the trees and rooftops, glowing against a cool dusky-gray sky where a few small bats fly. Loose, soft-edged brushwork, gentle haze and thick dabs of paint for the windows and lights give the symmetrical, one-point-perspective street a nostalgic, storybook feel.