Lush Green

I love this picture. There is something mysterious and beautiful about it. You expect the ferns to part and a tropical paradise to emerge. This is some plant that grows in the yard. Once a year it sprouts some big ugly appendage out of the middle of the plant and I think there are little flowers on it. Later it keels over and dies and then these little fiddlehead like things start sprouting around the dead ugly part. This picture is after the little fiddlead things unfold. That is my scientific explanation.