This is nice, but it's just not all that. . . it's lacking something.
Some sunshine would be nice, but that's not quite it. And I wasn't expecting the foliage here to be prime, though here abouts the foliage is rather remarkable. This doesn't show that, but that's not it either.
Packing up I find another location a short way upstream which shows compositional potentials. Yet I think, more of the same - and decide to leave this area. Possibly run into something enticing along the round trip back home. If nothing else inspires, there are some nice roads with turning foliage around the house. [shrug]
Still hesitating to depart the current compostions, I take out the 20D and 100-400 from the toploader bag, and shoot a quick one to weigh a composition. The point was to see if the composition would nudge me to drop pack and set up the tripod, so I ignored the camera settings from the previous handling. When the image review showed a blurred composition, I'm reminded of recent readings about purposeful motion blur (for random abstracts to toy with). I take a few more shots, introducing some slow but random movements to click through. I quickly check the historgram for each shot, but otherwise ignore those images as I turn back for the car. Oh, well [slight sigh].