A local town is represented as a train stop, hinted at beyond a hill. It appears to be either fall or the middle of a drought, as the colors used are warm—mostly reds, oranges, and yellows—with the corn and surrounding vegetation brown and yellow. These colors contrast with the sky, which composes two thirds of the canvas, and is blue with cumulous clouds. Terrell’s painting is diagonally composed, and the left half of it seems more modernized, with its large buildings and what appear to be telephone poles and electric wires running to the buildings, in contrast to the right, which has telegraph wires and a small silo or water tower.
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