Good eye, Dirt, it looks like the sun is a bit left as well
Definitely easier to leave the sky out of the frame and aim for some distant foliage or grass instead. The backlit effect will still be there, even at a slight angle.
I do sometimes include some sky in backlit images, but if so I usually wait until its pretty dark outside, after the sun has set or at least gone under the trees. I'll need two exposures, one for the sky and one for the subject and mixing these together will be so much easier if they are relatively similar from the start (and it will look more natural). Or actually, if possible I'd do two exposures from the same RAW, as this is easier as there will be no alignment issues when I mix the images. This is the same as many landscape photographers do today, instead of using a ND grad filter to even out the light difference between the ground and the sky. Of course one can recover some lost highlight and shadow detail with other post processing tools as well, but this rarely looks great if applied to the whole image as adjusting more than a little will make the image look very flat. In my opinion it's better to do this selectively. Other option is as you hint at, to use some frontal or fill light. In doing so one will loose some of the translucent effect, but a little is better than nothing!!!
Always having a breeze when the light is as best sounds difficult
Rather close to the coast here and we have a lot of wind here even with the sheltering forest, but the situation is opposite here as the wind often dies down after sunset. Sometimes it really pays to wait for those still moments in between winds as well. All of this reminds me of someone on a forum a long way back that had some thoughts about using a light tent or similar to provide some shelter from winds. I think he planned to remove the background in the light tent so that he could still use nature as a backdrop, just keeping the sides and the top. Sounded reasonable at the time, but not sure how well if it worked or not. Of course one could then also argue that he could pretty much shoot with reasonable results throughout the day, so wasn't really needing good natural light with that setup anyway, but he would have to be careful in choosing his out of focus backgrounds as they could easily appear to bright in comparison to the subject shaded in the light tent.
