Terri, the tree didn't quite come out and had a better beginning than ending. These "rock pines" are very horizontal in their foliage, sometimes nicknamed "umbrella pines", some variant of Monterey Cypress I imagine. Although truer to overall form than you imagine, I should have worked at the foliage differently. Classic, it does and did in life look like an outward explosion of foliage with a flattened top. That's their native form. But the tree ended up a near miss for me.
Oddly, the farm scene turned out "sweet", rather than sophisticated, but the composition and colors do work as intended. Wish I'd had a colored ground 20x10" PastelMat to start with, as that would have done the intended composition better. But this one did work, even if it lacked something more substantive.
As you'll note, I do like vignetting and that part worked exactly as intended in the farm painting.
Both are from life, BTW. Yellow oxalis on the hillsides, colors and lines, even if I did take artistic license on placement a bit.