Beautiful clouds! The lawn looks awesome. I'm pretty new to this myself, but I think I would like it better if the horizon were up a tad. What I mean would be using the rule of thirds to place the edge of the lawn to where the treetops are now.
Hey rose.. Thank you for the compliments and suggestions. "to tripod or not to tripod" ... that's my question for you.. ;)
What do you use? What kind of camera do you have?
The trees are a little underexposed due to the ratio of sky to ground which could be altered by a longer exposure or a lower horizon, but having said that I love how green the lawn looks, and the way the sky gets lighter as you look to the distance. Nice;)