Trees are starting their fall color in the valley, as they did when I started this quest almost a year ago. Unlike last year, though, the creeks are much drier and some which normally run year round are completely dry.<\/p>\n Click on a thumbnail to open up a larger picture and slide show***<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Click this link for a map of all painting locations along with each painting.<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n Continuing the \u201dCreeks and Rivers of Silicon Valley\u201d year long quest. 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Morning…, a view of Randol Creek<\/strong> in the Almaden Valley area. I previously painted in this area with <\/a>Fifteen: The Hard Drive Machine<\/a> and Eighteen, Nineteen: Mercury Sheen<\/a> and you can read a bit of the local history by clicking on those links. The creek has been dry all summer, but with a good downpour, it is now running just a bit, and I was out painting this right when the morning storm started to clear. Randol is a tributary of Alamitos Creek, which flows into the Guadalupe and on to San Francisco Bay, right in the middle of a newer suburban neighborhood at the southwestern edge of San Jose.<\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_5203.jpg?w=246&h=185\" "\\"The")
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