Trying to be better about carrying a sketchbook around me for when the nicer days occur.  Also for when on vacation or camping... Going back to the basics - contour sketches, fast sketching, gesture sketching, thumbnails, all of it to brush up my sketching skills.

I found a photo of Hines Drive I'd taken last Autumn and it appealed to me today.  I used a carpenter pencil as I'd not had a lot of experience with it before.  Also used a smudger (what are those things called - the rolled up pointed paper sticks??) to blend a few things in.  Took about a half hour.

Here's the reference photo.  I tried to simplify the photo for drawing purposes but not sure I succeeded.