Very nice photo!
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Thanks for sharing this photo.
Two plays in GIMP. I used my luminosity mask plug-in to increase contrast, particularly in the mid-range and then a small increase in saturation for the mid-saturation range.
For the second image I attempted to reduce the vignetting, however I think this reduces the impact of the image!
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My gut says to do something like @Popanz. So, for something completely (?) different:
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Applied a Kodachrome 25 LUT to the land and used color balance rgb to tone down the sky. My feathering of the sky mask needs work!
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Can’t say that this was easy. Bringing the thistles into the limelight meant Isolating them from the background was quite a challenge. Had to do a lot of back and forth with several modules as the xmp file will tell you. Here’s my attempt
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… but hey, that’s what I imagined 
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So I dabbled at color work and sharpening and cropping and framing (the framing color pickers don’t seem to work right), and I’m not sure I learned anything, except how to waste time.
darktable-4.7.0+910.
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Overall I think it looks very nice to me.
The challenge for me in this photo having not seen the original location was how green/lush was the grass or was it more dry and scrubby if that is a even a word… I felt like it would be on the drier side but many edits have added a lot of color.
A thing stood out catching my eye is the cotton fluff in the foreground and I like it when its whiter as I think it looks more natural. I could see some cast in your image so I just used an instance of color balance with the picker on the fluff.to neutralize that in the bottom half of the photo as you edited it and with that small touch I really liked your edit…