Compression artifacts are visible here due to PS level 2 compression necessary to fit the image in 150K limit. Better quality image can be found here:
http://www.pbase.com/alexeig/image/50793412
Many thanks for comment. We do have very vivid colors here sometimes, especially in a clear day when the sun is low like it is now. But, we have many, many days of low clouds and rain too and then everything is just grey
I like this one much better. I like the house off in the distance framed by the branches of the tree. Not sure about the bottle below the knot in the rope, although the color of the cap does seem to match that of the boat to it's left.
The colors in your images are really cool, there is something about them that is different from here in Kansas. Hmm, maybe my fondness of your colors has something to do with my grandfather being from Norway, and grandmother Sweden, and it is my DNA at work.