Spring. Evening.

Several white birch trunks with peeling, dark-flecked bark rise close together at the center of the scene, their bare upper branches catching a rosy afterglow against pale blue sky. Behind them a dense tree line of spruce and slender birches recedes into shadow, while patches of melting snow and dry grass cover the foreground ground.

Warm pink and ochre light rakes across the bark and twigs while the sky and snow stay cool blue-white, a strong warm-cool contrast typical of a late-winter evening. The pastel is worked in soft, grainy strokes that keep the birch bark textured and the distant trees loosely blurred, giving the scene a quiet, contemplative calm.