Thanks again everyone for your efforts and the nice comments. This was VERY tough to judge.
Everyone's efforts were a significant improvement over the out of camera jpeg. Nearly all of them I would be happy with. Most of you strategically cropped out foreground along the ditch (yes, I took this picture from my car window while paused on the road) and brought the barn out from shadows. The hard part is to chose amongst how you all chose to make the colors "pop" and work together. To make matters harder for me, when I looked at these on three different monitors, I realized that my rankings could easily be influenced by which screen (and image size) I was looking at....
My top candidates included Todd Phillips (entry#1), WhidbeyLVR (entry #1), Rob Rider (entry#1,#2), Hendrik (entry#1), RichardC (entry#2), Zapp DJR (entry#1).
But I must come up with a ranking, so here it goes
First Place:
@Rob Rider (entry #2)
Second:
@Zapp DJR (entry #1)
Third:
@WhidbeyLVR (entry #1)
Over to you
@Rob Rider!