“Pedro! Look! Look!,” Seymour the giraffe excitedly called.

Pedro Persistence rushed out of his cottage. “What happened? What happened?,” said Pedro, thinking something was wrong.

“Look at your plants! They are growing well,” said Seymour. “¡Si! Indeed they are,” said Pedro. “I am grateful to you, Seymour, for showing me a good spot to hang my plants.”

Just a few weeks ago Pedro was about to hang his potted plants in a tree, but Seymour told him not to, because there would not be enough light. Then Seymour helped Pedro find a good place to hang the pot. It was near Pedro’s door to his cottage where there was plenty of light.

“¡Si! It is a very good thing that I did not hang the pot in the tree, not only because there was not enough light there, but the birds would have been more likely to eat the seeds I had planted. With the pot this close to the door, they did not even come near, so my seeds were very safe,” said Pedro.

“And look,” said Seymour, “there is so much sunlight here there are even plastic spoons, and forks growing!”

Pedro started laughing really hard, and said, “No Seymour. I put in the plastic forks and spoons so the plants would grow a little straighter. ¡Ha ha ha! The plastic forks and spoons are made by people and they do not grow from seeds.”

“Oh!” said Seymour. “What will those plants grow to be?”

“They are tomato plants, and I hope that they will grow tomatoes,” said Pedro.

“Wow! All of that from a seed. It is wonderful how God has provided good things to eat,” said Seymour.

“Hee haw!” said Donkey Don who had come by to eat some tall grass.

“Look at all of this tall grass to for me to eat! Hee haw!” Don said.

“There are sure a lot of things that grow from seeds that are good to eat,” said Seymour.

“¡Si! And not just good things to eat, wonderful things to see and to smell. Have you seen my tulips?” asked Pedro.

“No, where are they?” asked Seymour.

Pedro told him the tulips were just around the corner.

Seymour rushed over to see, and sure enough, there were some very pretty tulips. He bent down his long neck to smell one.

Then, he heard Pedro calling him, and so he went to see what Pedro wanted.

“I forgot to thank you for something else,” said Pedro.

“What was that?” asked Seymour.

“You have remembered not to eat the leaves off of my rosebush, and now look at it. There are many roses on it,” said Pedro.

When Seymour looked at the rosebush, he saw more than roses. Delilah Duck was in the bush.

“Oh no, Delilah,” said Seymour. “Don’t eat the bush!”

“I’m not,” said Delilah. “I am enjoying the smell of the roses,” she said, and started to laugh.

Then Pedro laughed, and said, “Ah, you were kind of tricked again.”

Then Seymour started laughing, and said, “I guess I was.”

All that laughter at Ponderings Pond just seemed to make the day brighter, the grass greener, and the flowers prettier.