It looks like the end of the trail
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_of_the_Trail_(sculpture)#/media/File:End_of_the_Trail_(Wisconsin)_September_2013_02.jpg

for my half-century plant.
After waiting 45 years, it chose to bloom too late this year to avoid record cold temperatures over the last three days with one more to come.
I built a 15 foot tent over it's stalk with 100 watt light bulb to stave off what I thought was going to be a frost event of about 32 degrees.  It went to 24 or 25 instead and by the time I added an electric heater at 4 AM, it had begun to droop like the above sculpture, with it's small array of yet-to-flower branches looking very dead.
I can't say it won't recover, but I am not expecting it.

That's a drag, on the other hand you won't have to deal with the press and unwashed masses traipsing through your yard.

^^^Don't click that link!^^^  Unless you're in the market for a new dildo.

Thanks for the clarification.


 

After the unseasonable hard freeze last fall,  we had a long winter of a tall, dead, surprisingly strong stalk in the big container in my front yard dominating the view..
All the dozens of big leaves slowly and stinkily collapsed and fell off.
I was waiting out the process of growing and dying that took so long and wondering when it would be time for the compost heap.
There was one small remaining band of green where the stalk joined the leaves that caught the eye and has now produced five or six little sprouts, looking like miniatures of the original.
I expected the famous bloom and die life cycle to be the end, but perhaps being done in by frost instead changed it.
I'm not sure I have another 45 years to nurture it, but my grandkids are on alert.
Maybe Grav will master the picture thing and pass it on to me.

The little leaf sprouts have turned into five clusters of robust mini-plants with twenty or so six inch fronds arranged around the base of the dead fifteen foot stalk.
A month or so ago, three of these produced quarter-inch-in-diameter stalks.  One got broken, but the other two have gown to a foot or two and have produced a bunch of pendulous flower buds.
And the first of those bloomed Sunday.  It is about an inch in diameter.
Here is a link to what it looks like.  As you can see, it was never an agave at all:
 https://sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/plant-your-history/furcraea-foetida-mauritian-hemp