green thumbs and wings

Barnum and Otty have been very busy in the yard lately, tending to the vegetables and flowers which are growing so rapidly, as the sweltering, sunny days are interrupted by flash-flood inducing rains. The combination makes for some happy plants. Barnum spent the better part of one afternoon staring at the cherry tomatoes, barely believing those little round, green objects would someday contribute to pizza sauce. Otty spent that same afternoon wandering around in the Pepper Medley, thinking back on his early days at the Shedd - resting on a shelf in the gift shop, staring at the stuffed animal seahorses. Photosynthesis makes him nostalgic, a burden at times but he did enjoy telling Barnum all about the day Nathaniel came into the store, and almost passed him up for a collection of whale, shark and isolated crab pencils. Barnum wasn't listening too carefully, for the brussel sprouts had just been planted, and he was listening to hear if they'd yet stretched their roots in to their new soil.

Owls have excellent hearing, you know.