Repixeled the ground and altered the palette, regarding the foilage I honestly gotta admit that I ran out of Ideas, I can't think of a further way on depicting it, open for suggestions/Ideas.
Getting closer:


Also Have fun in Japan

Repixeled the foilage, now it considers the sun too and tinted the foreground blue, except for the directly by the sun lit parts, those were tinted yellow.Also weakend the shadow under the tree and broadened it plus some cleaning up on the steppe.

About the moon it only costs me one cluster, is vague enough and can be recognized as a moon, I don't see why I should change it.Regarding the composition/tangent no matter how I look at it in this case rather than unsetting/unattractive it feels calming/serene even when mirrored.

I know I'm barely reusing colors, the reason fot that is retaining/emphasizing the visual heirachy.

What spots would you say need AA?

Current peculiarity:

Self-depreacting?not at all its the contrary actually, but I guess its anything but evident that the statement in question is meant in a positive manner, well anyway back to the important stuff.

Repixelled the foilage tweaked some colors, what are the current ones lacking to clearly show that its morning?
Regarding the tangent, I thought that this is what aligning for- and background objects are labeled, whereas here the foliage is clearly overlapping the sun. Also attempted texturing the plane, never intended to leave it plain.
I think the moon is fine as it is, I mean after all you were able to recognize it as one. Yeah I've read about the rule of thirds, but on this piece there is nothing there to compete with the tree, so I think I'm not gonna make use of it this time, unless it has some other function besides shifting attention to an object.About the 2 shadows one is from the sun and the other from the sky.As for adding meaning, I can't think of anything more superfluous in a piece, to me all I'm looking for are shapes and colors that are appealing to my eyes.

Where the piece is currently standing

Dithering is not my intention here.

The dark color requires harsh contrast to make anything slightly readable(I'm pretty stranded in regards of color choice/usage in right now , maybe I'll find a soultion well' see)  

Pixel art revolves largely around obfuscating the grid which it is made of, so I thought why not try the complete opposites + I'm searching for a way to give every pixel in an piece meaning instead of merging it into clusters and discarding its individual meaning, though in this attempt half of the available pixels are used for the grid.

well anyway here is an update:


EDIT:just saw these:
http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixelart/2153.htm
Since this has already been pulled off successfully I see no point in continuing this topic, will have to find another way.