The dark timber frame and worn sill of an old window surround a still view of the water outside. Copper-leaved trees lean over the left bank, green shrubs line the near edge, and the pond stretches away to a meadow and a low wooded hill under a blue and cream sky. Daylight falls softly across the sill, warming the wood.
Its picture-within-a-picture composition looks especially good in the Gold Ornate Frame, and it brings a quiet outlook to a bedroom or a study. It is lovely alongside The Old Mill and Leaves on Still Water from the Autumn at the Mill collection, nine paintings of an old watermill, its pond and the woods that surround it.