Someone in a thread suggested a mid-day head-on-with-the-sun challenge - here's one that might fit that description. Another of the "waiting at the car place" series. I quite love it, actually.
take what I said with a grain of salt. I wonder if I'm just the Mtv generation. I want the elements I like to be big and easy to find, whereas your photo rewards a long, leisurely going over.
The middle area is most interesting to me, where some of the leaves seem translucent. I would try cropping off the sides. In fact, I would try cropping right up to the sun itself, maybe even crop part of it off. But I'm nuts.