A snow-covered cottage with white icing-like trim, a candy-cane-striped doorframe and a wreath on its door sits slightly right of center, flanked by tall snow-laden pines. A white picket fence and gate guide the eye along a snowy path toward its golden windows, while a thread of chimney smoke curls into the sky.

Cool blue dusk light is warmed by a soft pink glow at the horizon and by light spilling from the windows. Small pale flecks of falling snow catch the light. The distant forest is painted in soft, impressionistic strokes, set against thick palette-knife ridges on the roof snow and trim that give the cottage a tactile, frosted quality.