Camden

by Donnie Hayden

Pretty & Cool or Pretty Cool Part II

By 10:00 AM in NY (eastern standard time) today,April 28, 2014 it is midnight of the next day here in Australia (April 29th. Hopefully, I am asleep, for when we arise, it’s packing day, for tomorrow morning we will be leaving the ‘Land Down Under,’ for Japan, and our trip home.

So I, like Tooter Turtle will call upon Mr. Wizard the Lizard to get us safely home.

Tooter Turtle (sometimes spelled Tudor or Tutor) was a cartoon about a turtle that first appeared on TV in 1960, as a segment, along with The Hunter a detective dog, as part of the King Leonardo and His Short Subjects program. “Tooter Turtle” debuted on NBC, on Saturday, October 15, 1960, and ran for 39 original episodes through July 22, 1961. These episodes were later rerun as backups on other cartoon shows,^[1] but no more original episodes were made.

The plots followed the same general format. Tooter (voiced by Allen Swift) calls on his friend Mr. Wizard the Lizard (voiced by Sandy Becker), an anthropomorphic lizard wearing wizard cone hat, robe, and pince-nez eyeglasses. Mr. Wizard lived in a tiny cardboard box at the base of a tall tree. The introductory segment had Tooter knocking on the cardboard box, having “another favor to ask.” From inside the box, Mr. Wizard would shrink Tooter small enough to enter through the box’s front door, and invite him in. Mr. Wizard has the magic to change Tooter’s life to some other destiny, usually sending him back in time and to various locales.

Mr. Wizard sending Tooter Turtle somewhere in the past, present or future

As Tooter is doing his destiny, Mr. Wizard narrates about it. When Tooter’s trip finally became a catastrophe, Tooter would request help with a cry of “Help me Mr. Wizard, I don’t want to be X any more!” where X was whatever destiny Tooter had entered. Mr. Wizard would then rescue Tooter with the incantation, “Twizzle, Twazzle, Twozzle, Twome; time for this one to come home.” Then, Mr. Wizard would always give Tooter the same advice:

“Be just what you is, not what you is not. Those that do this are the happiest lot.”

Source, Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tooter_Turtle

Anyway, back to your present and ‘Pretty & Cool’ or Pretty Cool Part II

PrettyCool14 — A Pretty ibis in an habitat reserve nearby

PrettyCool15 — Another Pretty, Belgenny Farm, Camden Estate Park, Camden, NSW, Australia

PrettyCool16 — Pretty Cool flowers, Belgenny Farm, Camden Estate Park, Camden, NSW, Australia

PrettyCool16b — Closeup of prety cool flower, Belgenny Farm, Camden Estate Park, Camden, NSW, Australia

PrettyCool17 — Pretty Pink, Belgenny Farm, Camden Estate Park, Camden, NSW, Australia

PrettyCool18 — This pretty white flower looks like the tips of its petal were airbrushed pink., Belgenny Farm, Camden Estate Park, Camden, NSW, Australia

PrettyCool19 — Lime Tree, Belgenny Farm, Camden Estate Park, Camden, NSW, Australia

PrettyCool19b — Closeup of Limes, Belgenny Farm, Camden Estate Park, Camden, NSW, Australia

PrettyCool20 — Pretty Ducks, Habitat & Reserve in park, Camden, NSW, Australia

PrettyCool21 — Pretty Cool Window Display, Camden, NSW, Australia

PrettyCool22 — Pretty Cool Advice, on street outside store, Camden, NSW, Australia

PrettyCool23 — Pretty Cool Display and sculpture made out of wood, inside store, Camden, NSW, Australia

PrettyCool24 — Beautiful delicate little fragrant flower, Katoomba, NSW, Australia

PrettyCool25 — Bee and Yellow Flower, Katoomba, NSW, Australia

PrettyCool25b — Closeup of Yellow Flower, Katoomba, NSW, Australia

PrettyCool26 — Pretty Pink Flowers on Fence Line, Katoomba, NSW, Australia

PrettyCool26b — Closeup of Pretty Pink Flowers, Katoomba, NSW, Australia

PrettyCool27 — Beautiful, Downtown Sydney, NSW, Australia

PrettyCool27b — Closeup of Beautiful, Downtown Sydney, NSW, Australia

PrettyCool28 — Another Beautiful, Taronga Zoo, Sydney, NSW, Australia

by Donnie Hayden

Pretty & Cool or Pretty Cool Part I

As you are waxing on your Sunday, our is waning in Australia. Soon it will be Monday here. We have only two days left until we leave early Wednesday for our flight to Tokyo, Japan on April 30th. After an overnight night there, we will take a flight to Chicago, IL, U.S.A. on May 1st, fly through yesterday and still arrive on May 1st, catch another plane and be in Rochester, NY around 2:15 PM est, on May 1st. Then it is about a 45 minute drive and we will be home!

This has been an incredible trip to Japan & Australia! There is so much from both countries I still want to share with you.

While still in Australia there was so much more I wanted to share, but the time fails me. I have taken thousands of pictures and many of them are acceptable to my very critical eye. But with the laptop I have been using, problems with my camera, lack of software and other issues, I have been severely limited.

But there are places we went and things we did that I want to share and will, somehow in the future. Here is just a partial list of content I have not posted yet:

• Belgenny Farm (the birthplace of Australian agriculture)

• Out N’ About Sydney, Australia

• Beautiful sunrises and sunset

• Paddy’s Market (downtown Sydney shopping district

• More about Camden, Australia

• Our ferry boat ride in Darling Harbor, past the Sydney Opera House and underneath Harbor Bridge

• Susan’s & Caitlin’s High Tea

• Sea Life Sydney Aquarium

• Taronga Zoo (truly a world class zoo in Sydney. I have so many pictures of animals and we proabably only saw 1/3 of the zoo)

• And so much more!

So, I have loaded over 60 pictures of just what I call in the post, Pretty & Cool or you could also just think of these as pretty cool! 🙂 But these are pictures taken over the month that we have been in Australia. The are pictures of flowers and plants mostly found here. Most of these I do not not know their names are really much about them other than, there are just to me, Pretty & Cool! 🙂

So I will pre-schedule 3 posts for the next three days (including today) and post about 20 or so pictures for each day with some simple captions with descriptions.

If I get an opportunity to post anymore before we get home to The Gathering Place, I may? I will try and continue posting about our trip when we get home ASAP. But, we have much to do when we get home for the month of may and June, but I will do the best that I can, when I can.

Thank You for your patience and understanding.

Dahni