Heya JustCourt, not sure we have met on the forums before, if not: welcome to ThePhotoForum.
And yes, it was a nice view you had when you walked down that road near your house, lovely lake and the trees on the opposite bank look so wonderful.
But, like others have pointed out, you could have worked on the composition of this one, and since you did not at the time of taking the photo, you might want to work on it afterwards by cropping it differently. Such as taking away all the shadow part of the road which does not do anything to the photo. You could go "panoramic" and also take out some of the sky (would help you get rid of the dust spots, too), so the photo (then quite narrow and long) would show just what you saw, liked, and wanted to show.