Greencastle, PA

This painting was obviously unfinished because of the pencil lines on the left side of the painting that are extending the tree trunks of the two largest trees in the foreground.  It was also unsigned and unframed. 

At first glance, the snow appears to be white but on closer examination the viewer can see that Smith used lots of pink tones throughout the snowy areas including the individual snowflakes. Smith used little of the complimentary color yellow in this painting as compared to the use of yellow in "Love’s Walk".   Notice the clear Caribbean blue at the bottom of the picture under the red car and how the blues gradually change into more muted teals at the top of the picture.

Smith has also set up an amusing dilemma for the viewer to contemplate. There are two strings of cars traveling in opposite directions in only one open lane of traffic in a driving snowstorm. They converge behind the hill at the red barn. What will they do then? And why are there so many cars out at night in a snowstorm? Questions that are very thought provoking at this particular season of the year. One answer is: All the cars were not traveling together at the same time. The first two cars, which we can’t see, met head on and couldn’t go anywhere. Who was going to back up? As time passed, other cars were out and ended up "stuck" behind the first two.