A small Halloween procession of costumed animals crosses an arched fieldstone bridge on a country path: a bedsheet ghost with a basket of apples, a black cat in a tiny witch hat, a fox in a navy cloak carrying a glowing lantern, and a goose in a bonnet pulling a wagon of carved pumpkins.

Behind them an apple orchard glows in rust and gold, a red barn shows lit windows on the hillside, and a quiet lake and dark hills sit under a crescent moon and a few bats. Wildflowers, pumpkins and split-rail fences fill the foreground.

The scene is painted in a stippled, folk-art manner with a dusty, chalky finish and soft amber lantern light, giving it a cozy, nostalgic, gently spooky storybook mood.