 Within the painting , twisted green olive trees stand before the foothills of the Alps and underneath the sky with an " ectoplasmic " cloud . Later , when the pictures had dried , he sent both of them to Theo in Paris , noting : " The olive trees with the white cloud and the mountains behind , as well as the rise of the moon and the night effect , are exaggerations from the point of view of the general arrangement ; the outlines are accentuated as in some old woodcuts . " 
