A sun-drenched Southern California landscape features a prominent eucalyptus tree in the foreground, its pale trunk and sweeping branches framing the left side of the composition. The tree's dappled shadows create a cool refuge from which we view a curving road that leads toward distant palm trees and mountains. The scene captures a bright afternoon with a vivid blue sky and characteristic desert mountains rendered in soft purples along the horizon. A car can be glimpsed in the distance, and tall palm trees stand like sentinels along the roadway. The painting's bold brushstrokes and high-contrast lighting emphasize the interplay between the shaded foreground and the brilliant sunshine beyond, creating the "resplendent" quality suggested by the title.