A wide panorama of quaint white cottage-style houses with steep gabled and dormered rooftops repeats rhythmically across the frame, with no single focal point. Tall dark pines rise between and behind the houses, and a soft tree line fills the background.

Snow covers the ground and falls as scattered pale dabs over the sky, trees and rooftops. Warm lit windows and small Christmas wreaths on the doors suggest a cozy festive evening under soft, diffused overcast light.

The scene is built in heavy palette-knife impasto, with thick, chunky strokes and ridges in the snow, rooftops and foliage, and visible canvas weave in the sky.