Sep 30:  Mid-Autumn Lights @ Hung Shing Yeh Beach

Sep 27:  Two-Foot Scotsman Goes Viral!

Senior ex-Lammaite Andrew Doig, nicknamed Doggy, the Lamma Fun Day founder, has finally published his first novel. Here's his HK press release, introducing the novel: Two-Foot Scotsman Goes Viral!

It's been featured before in the Lamma-zine (July 10, 2008: Doggy & Wee Davy) and I've recently quoted a few of the many Lamma-related parts of the novel.

Doggy's former life on Lamma has become an integral and important part of the story. I think that this world-traveling yarn full of craic contains probably the best and most evocative descriptions of Lamma I've ever seen in a work of fiction, accurate down the tiniest details. Doggy has lived here for 8 years and was a real insider in the local bar/party scene in North Lamma:

"As a self-published author, I have no access to a marketing department that can send my novel out to the world. So, friends, family, colleagues and people I met once at a party, I am calling on you to be my marketing campaign!

On the 27th of September, I'm asking all you to help me out by making Wee Davy viral. Could you please share the Facebook page, link to my website, post to my blog, watch my videos, email me, encourage people you know to share too, and most importantly, encourage people to buy the book!

If you have read Wee Davy already, please find a good place to review the book!

I will post lots of links and things on the day, so please share these.

Thank you very much indeed for all the great support and encouragement I've received from you since publishing the book. and thanks huge amounts for helping me make Wee Davy viral."

Here's the award-winning cracker of an opening:

"This is the story of a black-hearted wretch. A nasty, dirty, selfish narcissist. A user. A bastard abuser with a foul mouth and a twisted, lecherous, unquenchable lust. This is the story of the incubus, the night prowler, the leach. This is the story of Davy and it’s the story of me."  Read more...

Sep 26:  Bomb on Mo Tat Wan Beach

Mo Tat Wan beach, close to The Bay Rest., Aug 27, 2012

It was just a short notice on the newswires and in the SCMP:

"Bomb-like object found on Lamma

Monday, 27 August, 2012, 3:21pm - Lai Ying-kit

Police condoned off a beach on Lamma Island after a bomb-like object was discovered on Monday.
Detectives are now trying to determine whether the object, discovered at the Mo Tat Wan beach around noon, is in fact a bomb.
Local media reported that the rusty object was about three feet long."

Of course, I followed up immediately, trying to find eyewitnesses and photos. Raymond of the nearby Bay Rest told me in person (during one of my past-hiking lunches) recently that they had found this 2-3-foot long grenade/missile while workers were digging for road constructions along Mo Tat Wan beach these last few weeks. They cleared the entire area, as the "bomb-like object" was deemed to dangerous to move. The bomb defusing experts had to apply 3 controlled explosions to render the bomb harmless.

Claire of The Bay Rest. writes:

"Unfortunately, I wasn't around when it all happened. But Raymond was busy taking pictures with his Samsung [see above, including some of the explosions!]
But when I retuned to The Bay the next day, I found a lot of sand all over the tables and the floor. Raymond had moved all the glasses inside the bar, including the plates, to a place safe from the explosions."

Sep 25:  'This Is a NON SMOKING Area!'

Sep 24:  Declaring Your Illegal Structures?

All Lamma households received this form letter from the Buildings Dept. just a few weeks ago. It urges all landlords to declare their Unauthorised Building Works (UBW), or illegal structures, as they're more commonly known. This can be anything from a bamboo trellis on a wall to enclosed balconies and even additional 3th floors. Most of our Village Houses have some form of UBW, usually small and harmless, but technically illegal nonetheless.

The Buildings Dept. is urging landlords to declare them till this Sunday, Sep 30, and get a kind of amnesty for a number of years before having to dismantle their UBWs. Very few have complied so far all over the New Territories and Outlying Islands, but my very nice landlord did.

Find out more in our forum, including "1 year dead, 1 year living" rental contracts, and are there any free squatting options on Lamma?

Rooftop structures

Sep 21:  Lamma Calendar 2013: Calling All Photographers!

Click above to enlarge, or learn more about the Lamma Calendar 2010:

The Generous Spirit of Lamma Residents

For Calendar questions and info updates, see our Pictures forum.

Sep 18:  Wavy Panoramas

I got a low-cost Sony HX10V compact camera a few months back, accompanying me everywhere these days. I'm reserving my large, heavy, long-lensed Nikon dSLR for planned photo shoots. I'm experimenting with all its new and exotic functions, like "Background Defocus", "Anti Motion Blur", "Hand-held Twilight", 10-frames/ second animations, "Gourmet Scene", "Pet Scene", "Advanced Sports Mode", "Intelligent Auto Scene Selection", "3D Shooting" (3D TV needed but not included), HD video and the automatic "Backlighting Correction HDR". It'll take me a long time to figure out most of these, but it'll be great fun to experiment and frequently make new discoveries.

Like many newer cameras and smartphones, it's got an "iSweep Panorama" Scene mode for shooting 180-degree photos while sweeping the camera round slowly. These cameras basically shoot numerous vertical slices, for example 10/second, and then it stitches all the slices together automatically into a nice panorama, after just a few seconds of "Processing..."

All the pictures below were shot with this automatic mode, from the middle of the circle of skyscrapers atop the Elements shopping Mall above Kowloon Station. Elements is just one single MTR stop away from the ifc Mall, opposite the Lamma Ferry Pier in Central. Firstly, let's sweep the camera up and over my head:

Nice, but what would happen if I don't sweep steadily and slowly, but fast and irregularly? Usually, it'll give you just an error message: "Could not shoot image. Move camera slowly." But as I discovered, after lots of trial and many errors, you can trick it by moving the camera slowly and steadily but irregularly, for example rotating it slowly clockwise and/or anticlockwise during sweeping. This might result in the oddly attractive pictures below. All of them have been created in-camera, no image manipulation and no Photoshop trickery at all (click to enlarge):

To quiet down my dizzy vision after hundreds of trial shots, here's a straight panorama of the HK skyline, also shot from Elements, overlooking the future West Kowloon Cultural District, again the venue of the Clockenflap Festival on Dec 1/2:

So what would happen if I'd use this newly-discovered "Wavy Panorama" function while shooting from the Old Jetty in YSW harbour?

Sep 17:  The Dolphin Quest

John Stuart writes:

"Earlier this month 29 paddlers from the Lamma Outriggers were involved in The Dolphin Quest, a 70K relay paddle around Lantau.

And yes, they are still there, Dolphins! We saw them, free and frolicking, flashes of delicate pink arching through the waters of one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world. There is hope.

Paddlers from all over Hong Kong shared the experience, raising funds to preserve the lifestyle of these precious creatures.

Thanks to the Lantau Outriggers for their initiative and all those who shared in this very special encounter.

Anyone interested in becoming part of a great group, contact the Vice-Chair of the Lamma Outriggers at Claudia_Tarr@yahoo.com."  [Photos by Claudia]

Sep 16:  Private Pavilion Breakfast (Dogs Welcome)

What are some Lammaites up to on early Sunday mornings, even before 7am? Going running, swimming, basketballing, hiking, walking their dogs, sometimes all the way up to the Lamma Winds Pavilion well before 7am. We used to do Boostcamps outside the windturbine, even at 10 degrees, but then our trainer (the Boostcamp Bitch, as she likes to be known these days) got lazy and wanted to enjoy at least Sundays off her hyperactive schedule to be with her young family. Harrumph! So I've got to bike up there by myself nowadays, as a fun part of doing outdoor cardio exercises in this fantastic, cooler, drier Fall weather.

For this open-air, hilltop breakfast with the amazing 360-degree views, bringing at least one dog is not just welcome but mandatory, unlike the many restaurants in YSW. BYOB - Bring Your Own Breakfast - and share, of course. A few more people would be most welcome as there's enough space and seating in our "Private Pavilion". More food choices would always be welcome, a hotel-style, home-made breakfast buffet is our goal, for humans AND dogs. But it starts at 7am, long before the first tourists arrived at 9:30am.

By then, it was time for my new friends to return to their Hung Shing Yeh hillside residences, and for me to perform my favourite Speedracer-style stunt down the entire Cable Road to the Power Station gate. At Power Station Beach, swimmers, fit dogs and their healthy human companions, plus the tireless Outriggers starting their morning hard-core training, probably for another swim to Cheung Chau Island or round-some-island race. They've just completed Round Lantau, did Round HK Island last year and will do Round Lamma again in just a few weeks.

Is ANYBODY sleeping in late on Sunday mornings on Lamma (besides Lamma-Por)?

P.S. One week later, we've upped the ante, adding blueberry muffins (Thank you, Eva!), white wine on ice, and grapes to our Sunday breakfast buffet spread at the Lamma Winds Pavilion. A fine selection of cheeses might be next...

Join us, no need to be shy! Anybody able to get up this early and arrive before 8am, bringing along (optional) dog(s) and any buffet additions will be welcome!

Sep 15:  Rubber Tree Leftovers

Tai Peng Village, opposite the Regent Store, the healthy landmark rubber tree has been cut down completely now, reacting to neighbours' complaints. See the full story. When might the construction of new Village Houses start?

Sep 14:  An Irreplaceable Encyclopedia of Lamma Lore?

I've been so pleasantly surprised about all the congratulatory feedback and emails I've received about the recent 10th birthday of this website! A few examples:

Marc: "Congratulations! You do a great job!"

Peter: "Oh, remembering Lamma makes me soooo homesick!
All the best for your 10th birthday!!"

Stella: "A wonderful and useful website, full of humanity and deserves to get much support!!"

O&S: "Must tell you time and again how appreciative we are of your great efforts over the years to keep this community spirit alive in Lamma!
We appreciate very much this wonderful community website, which has survived over the past 10 years, and wish it will continue to thrive for many years to come!"

George: "... otherwise no complaints, and no useful suggestions. The site works quite well I think, and has become an irreplaceable encyclopedia of Lamma lore."

Katie: "I wanted to tell you what amazing job you do for our community and how lucky we all are to have you !!!!
Your website is a portal to info and a great place to celebrate and people and it also builds community. Massive Thank you !!!!"

Jane: "You deserve the Bauhinia Gold Star or whatever HK's highest award is called for your untiring efforts. I do hope to join the celebration at some point, but in case I don't make it, please accept my virtual reality warmest congratulations! Three cheers for Lamma Gung!"

Dakota: "As a former resident of Lamma I must say that I have probably visited your website about a million times! Why write down the number of the Beer Garden when I can just look it up on the site!"

Chuck: "Wow, has it been 10 years? You are to be congratulated for sticking with it thru thick and thin, always maintaining an even hand where necessary ... that's not always easy.
I check out the Forum and the web site less frequently these days because of other commitments that take up most of my very busy schedule. But when I do visit it still gives me great pleasure to wander thru the postings and articles.
And as a bonus, you have inspired my partner and me to adopt a new sensible low-carbohydrate diet that we find so easy and pleasant to stick with. I thank you for that (but I do miss the beer. LOL).
My sincere thanks to you for keeping the rest of the world informed of Lamma happenings. So very well done!!!
With tons of respect and warm greetings from Canada."

Lamma steel map buyers: "We almost missed it all wrapped in rope and cardboard. The map is absolutely lovely. It looks beautiful. What a really pleasant surprise to see it this evening.
We will cherish it as a constant reminder of your fantastic work promoting this wonderful island. Thank you so much! All the best."

Besides the most generous steel map buyers, I've also received 1 Silver ($100), 1 Gold ($500) and 1 Platinum Sponsorship ($1,000). Would you like to become the very first ever Diamond Sponsor (see top right of this page)?

ThomasL did a first in the 10 years of our free classifieds: Moving Sale! 50% of proceeds to Lamma-zine!

On the day of his leaving HK after 5 years, returning home to Singapore, he handed me $2,000 in cash. Thank you so much, it's appreciated tremedously! It'll be fully invested in all the upgrades of this website currently in progress behind the scenes! There wasn't much left over in his flat, almost all sold via our classifieds, he even had to sleep on the floor that last night.

If you want to sponsor this website as well, helping it to survive a while longer and become better, see Support Lamma.com.hk! at the top right of this page!

Sep 13:  'Insufficiency of Medical Facilities in the Lamma Island'

The Lamma-zine has a long-standing policy in highlighting Lamma-related blogs and stories in any media which might be of interest to Lamma residents & visitors. There are quite a few blogs I track and you're welcome to add yours to my list.

Trying to be a neutral platform for many different views and opinions, I'll continue to republish or link stories from a wide variety of sources - private, official and company sources - as long as they're interesting for any reasons.

Case in point, The Blog of Baroque has recently published an article about the severe lack of medical facilities in South Lamma. The Sok Kwu Wan clinic has a doctor on duty for only 2 working days per week, despite the masses of tourists on weekends.

A resident hiker/fisherman died of a heart attack because it took so long to fly him by helicopter to the hospital. As a regular South Lamma solo hiker - familiar with all 3 Southern helipads, including the 2 remote ones - this article really struck a cord with me personally. The hundreds of very expensive emergency evacuation heli flights could be significantly reduced and lives saved in North and South Lamma with better medical facilities! Check out this informative, well-researched article (text & photos by Baroque on Lamma):

Insufficiency of Medical Facilities in the Lamma Island:

"Lamma Island is the third largest island in Hong Kong and one of the oldest inhabited areas in the history of Hong Kong. However, in the past decades, many villagers, especially those from Southern side, had moved out of Lamma Island in order to get a job in the city centre. The population as well as the public facilities are not evenly distributed on the island. The insufficiency of medical facilities combined with the sparse population in Lamma Island expose the residents to risk when there are accidents.

According to the residents of Yung Shue Ha Village, the insufficient medical facilities and planning have caused a great deal of inconvenience to them. At the moment, there is only one health center and one clinic, located at the Northern Lamma and they all have limited opening hours. Therefore, the villagers living in the Southern Lamma are rather helpless should there be an accident.

In June this year, an old lady who lives alone, accidentally fell on her back and had to seek emergency treatment. Due to the lack of facilities in Lamma Island, the villagers’ only option was to lift her to the helipad between Mo Tat and Yung Shue Ha [see right] before medical staff can transfer her to a hospital in Hong Kong Island by helicopter. In the end, it took few hours to send the lady to Queen Mary Hospital.

Another unfortunate incident happened a few weeks ago. A resident, who went fishing daily, suspected to suffer from heart attack due to heat stroke. It took 4 hours to take him to the hospital for emergency medical services. Sadly, he passed away after 2 days of hospitalisation."

Read more...

There are a few more recent stories about South Lamma in this corporate blog, worth checking out, plus quite a few promotional sailing/yachting articles, from the company still patiently pursuing their ambitious plans for South Lamma:

2012/08/13: Plaque at Yung Shue Ha

2012/08/01: The Baroque on Lamma Newsletter Issue #5  (Plans for a Visitors Centre, more about this in an upcoming Lamma-zine story.)

2012/06/27: Commencement of Archaeological Impact Assessment (AIA) Field Work (postponed since the article, due to a denied permission. More soon...)

Sep 12:  "It's So Beautiful!"

Rat snake gets head stuck in wall  (click for Nick's Facebook video)

Nick Shearman writes:

"Here's a funny tale. Yesterday, the postman comes running into our living room all excited, saying 蛇, 蛇... so I run out with him and there in the garden wall is a Rat snake with its head stuck in a hole. It stayed there 'til the cops came.

They spent a few minutes trying to pry it's head out with a stick, ready to catch it but lucky for the snake it bolted into the bush before they could grab it. We've had a good run of snake sightings this year, unbelievable actually.
— at 南丫島 Lamma Island."

Poisonous Bamboo Pit Viper in O Tsai Tsuen, behind Po Wah Yuen
(by Nick Shearman) — A quite harmless baby Burmese Python found and adopted outside Diesel's (by Pamela)

Join the popular Lamma Snake Sightings Facebook group and post your own photos and videos. It's really been a great year so far for snake sightings. Many Lammaites have gotten pretty used to seeing them around, for example one morning runner spotting 3 snakes during a single run. Some even admire them, like the baby Python above being adopted (for just a few days); or Nick's 3-year-old daughter Roisin in the video, a real Lovely Lamma Lady, exclaiming passionately:

"It's so beautiful. It's a beauty!"

Sep 11:  Most Popular Bar Drinks?

What do people like to drink in Lamma bars? This is the list of free drinks given out (at my expense) at the 10th birthday party for this website last Friday, courtesy of The Island Bar bartender. 116 drinks served, so the figures above are close to percentages, sampled over 2.5 hours during a Friday evening.

This list makes for some interesting reading (as far as it can be read at all). Some of the abbreviations are a mystery to me, as only an occasional, inexperienced bar patron, flabbergasted by the wide range of unusual drinks available, especially all these exotic beer brands. Who knew they serve "Leffe" beer, and that red wine enjoys so little popularity (1 single glass ordered)? But what's the most popular drink? White wine, my personal favourite! How popular is YOUR favourite tipple?

Sep 10:  Lamma's Only Restaurant?

Searching for Lamma restaurants & bars on the Internet is a real hit-and-miss affair. Either you get too little or too much information and usually extremely out-of-date and vastly inaccurate. See these two extreme examples (besides all the HK indexes that do not even have a "Lamma Island" area in their lists:

Searching for "Lamma" on the SCMP's official, widely promoted "Good Eating" HK Restaurant Directory yields only a single result, the tourists-only Rainbow Seafood Restaurant in Sok Kwu Wan, admittedly by far the largest on Lamma, with its own fleet of free ferries for customers. This makes us look like our sister island Po Toi, which really has only one restaurant, a beachside seafood place.

Searching on HK Magazine's Restaurants section gives a meagre 4 results!

Searching on OpenRice gets you 85 results! 85? We've got around 20 places in YSW, plus a smaller number in Sok Kwu Wan, with not a single bar down there. Checking out their list, more than half of the places have gone out of business long ago, but are listed as still active, besides all the typos and inaccuracies in this famous restaurant index, the undisputed and multi-lingual #1 in HK:

Last but maybe least, there's the small Lamma Index of Bars & Restaurants (w/reviews & ratings), updated by Yours Truly and accurate up to today, to my limited knowledge. Any typos, mistakes or omissions would be entirely my fault and you're welcome to set me straight and push me to correct them immediately! Especially in the shrinking number of Sok Kwu Wan restaurants, overpowered and out-marketed by the ONLY restaurant on Lamma (according to SCMP), there might be a few places having closed down since my last survey. Let me know!

Basic Yellow Page-like listings and promotions for all Lamma businesses have always been free on this website, especially in the forum. But they are more than welcome to advertise on this community site for Lamma residents & visitors, still #1 in Google and Yahoo Internet searches.

Sep 9:  Chill Out - Lamma Island

Eat & Travel Weekly supplement magazine, Sep 7, 2012:

29 pages & 100+ photos of interviews with Lammaites, including me, probably the biggest Lamma newspaper story in years. They interviewed me and Nick the Bookman together for several hours in The Waterfront, but we only got a few paragraphs each. People & places featured, some on double page spreads:

Ron & Dan of Green Cottage
James & Caroline of Lamma Grill
Joyce of Diesel's
Bobsy & the Lamma Forest
and many more...

Check out the magazine at Green Cottage and on the ETW website (needs Next Media subscription). I've put a few scanned pages into our forum:

南丫人誌【有田有地，耕種好地方。】

Sep 8:  The World's Highest Feeling

That's how I felt on Friday night, enjoying "The World's Highest" feeling for a few hours during the 10th birthday party for Lamma.com.hk in The Island Bar on Fri, Sep 7, and it wasn't just because of the drinks....

As ca. 116 free drinks have been served, each represented slmost exactly 2 metres of the 233m bungee jump off the Macau Tower, which I didn't do, spending a similar amount on this party instead. It was a much better and longer-lasting pleasure, benefiting 100+ people instead of just myself. The T-shirt above is only given to people who actually did another jump, my SkyJump (feet first, like a bungee jump for beginners) a few years ago. So I'm still a *real bungee* virgin...

The decorated Island Bar before the crowds arrive -- Moist & yummy birthday cake by Sharon; thank you! -- 10 years of this website on one tiny backup card.

The really great snacks buffet, fully catered by The Waterfront.
It lasted for the entire 2 Happy Hours and there was almost nothing left over.

Island Bar/Waterfront owners, staff & friends. Sorry for my bad photo cropping in this group shot, I might have had one drink too many....

Lamma Gung (Invitations went out via the Lamma-zine email and on Facebook):

"Many thanks to everybody joining the 10th birthday party of Lamma.com.hk last night! It can be getting a bit lonely in a home office sometimes, so all the congrats, hand shakes, friendly encouragements and "10 more years!" will keep me going for quite a while longer!"  (35 Likes for this FB status update so far)

"Thank you so much to all the contributors, writers, photographers, moderators, sponsors, advertisers, cheerleaders, etc. over the last ten years! Without all of you we could never have made it this far, surviving, growing & serving the Lamma community for an entire decade!"

Excerpt from Dan Peterson’s verbal address to the multitude:

"Well-deserved congratulations on your 10th Anniversary, and a huge Thank You from all of us for your diligence, hard work and efforts on behalf of the Lamma community over the years! Thank you for 10 years of excellent service to the community of Lamma, and congratulations too on producing a world-class website in the process!"

Boss: "Really nice party last night at The Island Bar, Lamma-Gung! Thank you! Hope you got lots of feedback on Lamma-zine from your guests. The ones who mentioned anything to me only had good things to say. "

Next party in 10 years, in 2022, or earlier, I hope? I better start saving up....

Sep 7:  Lamma-zine Graffiti

Graffiti by Dofi for the 10th birthday of Lamma.com.hk, celebrated in The Island Bar tonight, painted on a wall at his home off-Lamma. Many thanks! Several of his graffiti group's legal artworks have been decorating The Fountainhead bar over the years and a few walls in YSW's centre (Have a WILD Summer).

Being only an occasional Lamma visitors, usually to paint by invitation, the first version of this painting had FOUR blades on the windturbine, see below:

Sep 6:  10^th Birthday Party Tomorrow!

A public 10th birthday party, everybody welcome,
1 free drink & snacks, will be celebrated tomorrow, Fri, Sep 7, starting 6pm in The Island Bar!

Your first drink and the snacks buffet are free for everybody during this Happy Hour. To get more free drinks, please talk to me personally, tell me what you like and dislike about this website and how to improve it. Be honest, I can take it and I'll appreciate your candid opinions & suggestions, and you'll get another free drink anyway!

This party is paid for by Lamma-Gung personally, not by donations to this website. I had planned to do a bungee jump off the Macau Tower to celebrate this big birthday. But my reservation was cancelled because T10 Vicente was approaching, on July 23, the actual, exact date of the birthday! A T10 arriving for this 10th birthday, such great timing, don't you agree!

So I decided to use the savings from this expensive ($3,188), exciting but self-indulgent bungee jump to invite all friends of Lamma.com.hk for a party instead, giving up my bungee jump. So many people and businesses have been helping to build and sustain Lamma.com.hk, a real community effort, so this will just be a little get-together to thank as many as possible. I also postponed the official party till everybody had returned from their extended summer breaks and extensive world travels.

In-house, a major update of the forum is under off-line testing right now. Major improvements all over this oldie-but-goodie website are being implemented step by step. A major forum update is in test mode right now (already being flooded with spam registrations I'll have to prevent before going live soon). New, modern-style photo galleries and social media links (top and bottom of this page) are already up and running, thanks to my summer intern. Updated Yellow Pages, design improvements, Facebook integration and more bilingual content will be happening over the next few months.

But it all depends on your input, ideas and, yes, donations and sponsorships which are absolutely essential to make these improvements happen at all. There's a brand-new donation appeal at the top right of this home page. How about becoming the very first SILVER, GOLD, PLATINUM or DIAMOND SPONSOR of Lamma.com.hk? Check out our donation appeal at the top right of this page for further details! We'll happily accept your Gold and Platinum credit cards via PayPal.  ;-)

We're also always looking for old and new advertisers who've made the survival of Lamma.com.hk possible for 10 years, but barely, coming so close to shutting down several times, the last time just little over a year ago, saved at the last minute by donations. Contact me by replying to this email for any leads who might be interested in taking advantage of our digital marketing services. Huge commissions for you for any successful introductions; I'll handle everything afterwards.

See you tomorrow evening, I hope! Look out for the guy who looks almost like my new avatar above, except the earring and the Harry Potter glasses. It was created by Senior Lammaite Harry Harrison. I scanned it from his SCMP editorial cartoon on Aug 30, using it with his kind permission. Here are some of the former appearances of this recurring character in Harry's SCMP cartoons. He's always shown as a geeky, weasel-like, ethically challenged Creative guy working in tourism advertising and marketing, similar to my former jobs in my BL (Before Lamma) life, perhaps?

Do you know of any more appearances of this character? There'll be more free drinks as prizes if you find & submit any more!

P.S. Just in directly from Harry Harrison, upon my request:
the scanned, high-quality version of the original cartoon! Thank you so much!

Sep 5:  Discover Paint-o-genic Places