I couldn't put my finger on why I felt I had to "ask" about this image. I felt it had potential, but as it is so different from what I usually do, I felt less confident with it.
I'll go ahead and print it and luve with it awhile.
I think you had to ask because your image didn't transfer as well as the moment itself did in real time.
Some moments "to the eye" are stunning and memorable," but they don't transfer to camera as well.
(By contrast, what others sometimes walk passed and ignore a photographer can "see something" in and take a great image of the ordinary.)
In this case, the scenery doubtless was beautiful as you drove by, but the lighting was terrible for a photograph (too much shades, too many highlights IMO).
This is why photographs in the middle of the day seldom make good photographs, they just have too many extremes of light/dark.
The upper left (and bottom) of your image are too yellow/too bright. Meanwhile the middle is too dark.
Only the flowers are pretty, but it's not enough to save the image IMO ... because the same thing is happening with them (some too dark, some too light).
More even lighting (say in the early morning) might have made the image print-worthy.
