In 1864 Boulenger became the first painter to settle in the environs of Tervuren, a small village just to the east of Brussels. He painted this picture a few years later at a happy and productive time of his life, the year that he married. Bathed in the fresh light of spring, the landscape shows a farmhouse nestled behind trees and cut off at the right. A large flowering tree sprawls to the left to shade two small figures and a flock of sheep. The scene is calm, but bursting with life and contentment.