Not addressing the question, but...

I find the "John Barleycorn must die" sign amusing. There's an old (as in hundreds of years old) song about John Barleycorn and how he must die - because reaping the barley was how you made beer. It's probably not the message the prohibitionist wished to send...

This one is from a monastery guest house in Venice:

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Here's one I found in an Oxford back alley.

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On dubious claims:
When I visited Oxford, I saw a coffee shop claiming to be the oldest in England. Across the street from it was one claiming to be the oldest in Europe.

The original hot sauce is likely past its pull date anyway...

If you are running a Micro$oft operating system, you can download something called Microsoft ICE (Image Composite Editor), which does a great job of pasting together pan images. It works with both JPG and raw files, and can export the results as a PSD (or PSB) file or any of a number of other formats for final processing. It does most of the grunt work automagically, and does a pretty good job of it too. If the files have been exposed with different exposure levels, it will do a decent job of adjusting them so the result is seamless.

Do you have a raw version of this or just a jpeg? There is much more info, and hence much more you can do in post, with a raw file.

What post-processing software do you use? In LR, you can try pulling down the highlights and increasing the whites until the histogram just touches the corner. This will bring out any detail in the (apparently) blocked sky and fall. You can do a similar maneuver, raising the shadows slightly and dropping the blacks until the histogram just touches the left corner. It would be easy to overdo raising the shadows in this picture, so use a light touch. You could also add a bit of contrast.

All the above will tend to increase the saturation of an image. It sounds like you're looking for some increase, but you may need to dial it back before you're done. Any overall color cast may also be emphasized, which you can fix by playing with white balance.

Oh, and as others have said, you need to straighten the horizon.

I have no doubt the site was something, but I'd question some of those alignments. I remember reading an article, back in the days when the supposed cosmological implications of the pyramids were getting a lot of press. An astronomer, wanting to point out the absurdity of all the claims, found a series of similar values in Building C of the Harvard University, including as I recall values for pi and e. Alignments to the Celtic holidays implies either a transatlantic culture 4000 years ago, or wishful thinking. I know which I'd bet on.

Rattlesnakes like their space, but they keep the rodents down. I wouldn't mind one as a neighbor.

I've been lurking here a few months, and figured it was time to say hi, and say a little bit about myself.

My first camera was a Brownie, given to me in 1954, but I can't say I took any great pictures with it.

I really became interested in photography when I was a teenager and the family visited Yosemite. I wandered into Ansel Adam's shop and had my mind blown by what I saw. Though I have never made an image to match, for the first time I realized what was possible for a camera. My brother was and is an artist. It occurred to me that here was an art form that I might be able to do.

I started with a darkroom kit my cousin gave me and an old 828 camera. Most of my best pictures in those days were accidents. For a brief period, I had access to a Speed Graphic, and then in 1970 I bought my first SLR. It was as basic as they come and as much as I could afford. I read everything I could find written by Ansel Adams, pursued the zone system religiously, and, eventually, took some halfway decent photos.

Life intervened. I got married raised kids, and then raised a grandkid. Most of the places we lived, I couldn't finagle a darkroom. My cameras improved, and I kept making photos when I could. I shot color, but was rarely happy with what came back from the lab.

Then, in 2001 with the grandson moving out into the world, I got my first digital camera, a Sony DSC-F707. For the budget I had, I could get a 3MP DSLR or a 5MP with EVF. I chose 5MP, and have been generally pleased with that camera. My wife still uses it.

In 2008, I got my current camera, a 12MP Canon Xsi. That's when my color photography started to take off. I could shoot raw, for one thing, though it took me a few years to figure out the advantages of doing so.

Anyway, here I am, an old codger hoping to learn a few new tricks on this forum

I use my right eye, but my wife (also a photographer) uses her left. Many years ago I bought a Ricoh camera body with an interesting feature. To prevent accidentally triggering the shutter, you couldn't take a picture unless the film advancement lever was cocked out away from the body. When my wife tried to use it, and put her left eye to the viewfinder, the lever poked her in the right eye! Needless to say, we didn't keep the camera long.