A lone stylized spruce, its drooping, ragged-edged branch tiers washed in sage and evergreen, stands at the center of the picture with no ground line or horizon. Four round glass ornaments in dusty cranberry, each with a tiny gold-brown cap and a soft highlight, are scattered asymmetrically across the branches above a small brown trunk.

Behind it, hand-painted vertical stripes in greige and pale oat beige run edge to edge, their edges slightly wobbly and a few cut off by the border. Soft wet-on-wet blooms and pooled pigment, with no outlines, keep the transparent watercolor airy and low in contrast, for a calm, Scandinavian-farmhouse feel.