No, I don't know what the plant is, except that it's a shining thing, and its roots are on the inside of the hollow metal bannister.
(For those of you not in town, it's been raining buckets here.)
(And Photobucket reduces images to 1MB when uploading, apparently -- this is a much nicer shot in reality.)
Also, last Tuesday (June 20), I saw a shooting star. Not a tiny meteor-shower star among other stars, but a large flaming streak across the sky.