I enjoyed listening to your critique, as well!
I plan to try to take re-take it at the most colorful point in the day possible as you suggested (which isn’t very long due to LOTS of shade in that part of the yard), fool around with different edits, and post that once I get all that done. I may enter the photo in our local Grange fair in August… I’ve entered photos there before, and though I don’t quite know what to make of the judges, I’ll see how much of a sense of humor they have! đ