They are not quite at their peak, but trees in southern Ohio are rapidly becoming more and more colorful. I grabbed a few pictures this week ahead of the rain that moved in Saturday. I did not find any huge walls of color. Lots of trees hanging onto the green leaves of summer still surround spots of red and orange, but those red and orange spots really do make things look good.

I drove to the east on Thursday to poke around East Fork Lake and nearby areas.

On Friday, I headed north to Darke County where I grew up. I stopped on the way in neighboring Miami County to look in on Greenville Falls. Trees at the falls are still quite green although there are a few more colorful ones not far away.

Some of the more colorful scenes catching my eye were in Greenville Cemetery. Gold and yellow make a very nice background for the gray markers.

I spotted these two big splashes of orange several miles north of Greenville from some distance then realized, as I got nearer, they stood in front of a house where my grandparents lived in the 1960s.