I think the green thing is grass or a plant of some sort. I like the image, but I agree that a darker more moody atmosphere might improve things overall.

This is not my "second childhood". I'm not finished with the first one yet.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

"I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather....not screaming in terror like the passengers on his bus." - Jack Handy