Although we did not have a paint-out scheduled for this week, the weather was just irresistible, so I joined the Paint 360 Meet-Up group at the Avalon-Orange area of the Patapsco Valley State Park to paint the Thomas Viaduct. It is the oldest major railroad viaduct in North America and the first built on a curved alignment. This year marks its 175^th anniversary, and the Friends of the Patapsco Valley and Heritage Greenway have put out a Call for Entries for artists and photographers to portray the Viaduct for a show to be held at the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, opening at the end of July. I had a great time painting and was very pleased to meet some new plein air colleagues. I’m also fairly happy with the painting I did, but it does need some work before it’s ready to submit. I may just leave it as a study and do a larger studio piece for the show, based on the plein air piece and on the photos I took…I will decide that over the next day or two. //Have finsihed the studio version, which I've posted here: it's called "Steadfast" and I plan to deliver it to the B&O Railroad Museum tomorrow morning.