A large black crow perches on a weathered fence post, slightly left of center, silhouetted against a pale, heavily textured sky. A split-rail fence runs through a dense field of dried sunflowers, with small orange pumpkins scattered at its base and bare, spindly trees flanking the scene.

Beyond the field, a soft rolling hillside carries a distant white farmhouse, barn, silo and evergreens, hazed by gentle atmospheric depth. Overcast, even light and an antiqued surface of mottled, cracked and stained paint give the picture a worn, rustic, primitive folk-art character in muted harvest gold, umber and terracotta.