A single massive oak with dense burnt-orange foliage and dark gnarled branches spreads nearly edge to edge across the picture. Two simple sheet ghosts with small dark cutout eyes stand side by side at its base, while a small farmhouse with a chimney sits back in the field to the left.

Pale, unlit pumpkins are scattered through the dry golden grass of the foreground. The light is flat and overcast, like a muted dusk, and the horizon fades softly. The oil painting shows visible canvas grain, thick dabbed strokes forming the leaf clusters, and smoother blending in the sky and field.