cloudy monday #2

Late October

As you can see, I pulled over to the side of the road (always nice when I remember to do that) to catch this confluence of layered puffy clouds, browning grass, rusty trees, and mountains. I figured I would edit out all the asphalt in the foreground, like the picture below.

But I discovered I loved the triangular slash of the road more than the purer beauty of the edited photo. For those of you who know/care about such things, which composition do you think is better, artistically speaking? I have no training in this stuff, so I'm sure my eye is pretty, um, uneducated!