The WA Palouse In Spring Time

Called on some of my accounts in Central and Eastern WA this week, so I took a little detour and did a quick check on the Palouse. The Wheat is just starting to pop and should be pretty good toward the end of May.
Any suggestion, CC, Feedback on how to improve on these images greatly appreciated.

Thanks for looking

Ray Still

Can never go wrong in the Palouse. The trees add a nice sense of scale. The lighting is a little flat for this type of scene, IMO. Low angle light creates shadows which increases the depth and helps define the rolling hills a little better. I'll be there the first week of June.

Nice POV here; there is just one troubling issue. I see no true whites anywhere. What does your histogram look like? There is a muddiness to the image that I suspect adding some whites to would fix.

Thanks guys for the comments and feedback here is a rework still not exactly the way I want

Ray Still

Hi, Ray: This is a really nice landscape of the Palouse. I like the subtle earth tones throughtout in the first image. The second image is a bit too stark for my tastes. I think making a couple of passes with a large brush, once to burn and again to dodge, might be all that is needed to perk up #1 just enough. In my opinion, anyway... The most dramatic landscapes in this area are usually shot in the golden hours. But this is every bit as nice- just in a different way, different mood. And a fun detour from the job, I dare say! Lucky you!

The lighting is a little flat, but the forms of those hills are always really intriguing. The way you've composed it with the strong diagonals switching back works well. I don't find the top half to be helping the image at all though, and might consider cropping off to the top of the tiny wheat field at mid left frame.
The rework has some nice color, but the white triangle area is a little distracting IMO. Might have to selectively add contrast to only the green/gold areas.