Just beginning to bloom.

Trillium like damp maple forests, and they have to grow and flower early before the maples leaf out and steal all the sunlight. Notice the ants in the top photo; trillium depend on ants for seed dispersal (myrmecochory). And, deer are said to love dining on trillium, but you would not know it from visiting the maple forest along the Lake Kagawong shoreline at the end of Mud Creek. Seems to me the deer prefer the cedars and white pines on Serendipity Lane.