Some of Our Ferns

When we bought our house in September,  1970 there was a steep front bank from our lawn down to the street level, that had a lot of twisted brown stuff on it and I never looked closely.  Imagine the thrill when Spring arrived and coming out of the  front bank were bright green fiddleheads.  Fiddleheads are the furled fronds of a young fern. Each fiddlehead unrolls into a new frond, which is a large divided leaf of the fern.  These ferns have been a joy to watch all the years we have lived here.  In the last 5 years or so, some small groups of ferns have emerged from the ivy under the Japanese maple tree.  So infrared did a nice job of showing both the delicacy of the ferns, as well at some of the ivy leaves.