You leave town for 10 days, and everything happens in the woods: large-flowered bellwort, white trout-lily, toothwort, and false mermaid blooming; white trout-lily starting to fruit; bloodroot flowers fallen, capsules ripening; cotyledons of upland jewelweed (Impatiens pallida) giving way to foliage leaves.
Maple Grove Forest Preserve, DuPage County, Illinois this morning.