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Colton Point State Park / PA Grand Canyon

February 7, 2018 Jeremiah Dowling Leave a comment

Location: Colton Point State Park / PA Grand Canyon
Book: ‘The Blue Sword’ by Robin McKinley

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*Photos taken October 2017 during our
Pennsylvania State Park Road trip*

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2015 was the birth of my son ‘Hobbes’ and over the course of that year I explored quite a variety of books. I delved into some young adult fiction with the ‘Hatchet’ and ‘Harry Potter’ series’ then finished up essays on theology; I opened the pages of a T.S. Eliot play after going deep into a bulky Dickens novel ‘Bleak House’; I re-read some of my favorite books (Lord of the Rings) before finally read ‘The Great Gatsby’. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ After my son was born I read him ‘A Giraffe and a Half’ by Shel Silverstein - I had found the book years ago while putting books away during work at a college library and decided to read it for such an occasion. I also discovered a different side of Tolkien while reading ‘Roverandom’ - a book he wrote his boy after he lost a toy. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Sometimes looking back on a year is so memorable because of things that had happened and is also so, in the same moment, because of the pages one has read. _____________________ #Bookstack #Literature #ClassicLiterature #Bookstagram #Book #HarryPotter #Dickens #LOTR #Tolkien #TheGreatGatsby #TSEliot #CrimeandPunishment #RayBradbury #GeorgeOrwell #FScottFitzgerald #Roverandom #OrangeChairClassics #TheOrangeChair

Admit it, some of you think The Orange Chair is un-bear-able! ____________________________ #Puns #SundayPunday #Autumn #Poconos #JimThorpe #LehighGorge #Throwback #Mascot #Bear #DiscoverNEPA #PACollective #TheOrangeChair

Happy Autumn!! _______________________ #ThomasDarlingPreserve #Bog #Boardwalk #Autumn #Poconos #DiscoverNEPA #PACollective #ScenicPA #Throwback #Travel #ThePictureOfDorianGray #OscarWilde #ClassicLiterature #Book#Bookstagram #GreatAmericanRead #OrangeChairClassics #TheOrangeChair

It took me a while, but I was finally able to get The Orange Chair to sink - momentarily. Which is ironic because the book in the picture is ‘The Boat Who Wouldn’t Float’ by Farley Mowat. But regardless this underwater picture came out awesome! _______________________ #Underwater #Action #Swimming #Jazz #Poconos #PoconoMountains #Pennsylvania #Adventure #GoPro #Book #Bookstagram #Literature #TheBoatWhoWouldntFloat #Novel #TheOrangeChair

Goodbye summer, it was fun. __________________ #Underwater #Action #Swimming #Jazz #Poconos #PoconoMountains #Pennsylvania #Adventure #GoPro #Book #Bookstagram #Literature #TheBoatWhoWouldntFloat #Novel #TheOrangeChair

‘The Far Side’ is one of those comics I read through so fast and can’t seem to get enough of. Needless to say, I was pretty stoked to find this at the used bookstore for just $2. ____________________________ #Adventure #Explore #Poconos #Pennsylvania #IndoBoard #TheFarside #GaryLarson #Book #Bookstagram #Reading #ComicBooks #Comics #Literature #TheOrangeChair

Just a normal day... ____________________________ #Adventure #Explore #Poconos #Pennsylvania #IndoBoard #TheFarside #GaryLarson #Book #Bookstagram #Reading #ComicBooks #Comics #Literature #TheOrangeChair

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ “Congratulations! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Today is your day. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ You’re off to Great Places. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ You’re off and away!” ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ - Dr. Suess _______________________ #Adventure #Hospital #LehighValleyHospitalPocono #Poconos #EastStroudsburg #OhThePlacesYoullGo #DrSuess #ChildrensLiterature #Literature #Book #Bookstagram #Bookstagramer #OrangeChairClassics #TheOrangeChair

At the hospital where Jo was born with the first book I read her: ‘Oh, the Places You’ll Go’. ___________________________ #Adventure #Hospital #LehighValleyHospitalPocono #Poconos #EastStroudsburg #OhThePlacesYoullGo #DrSuess #ChildrensLiterature #Literature #Book #Bookstagram #Bookstagramer #OrangeChairClassics #TheOrangeChair

Meet Josephine. _______________________ #Adventure #Family #Literature #ChildrensLiterature #Book #YoungReaders #Bookstagram #Bookstagramer #FranzKafka #TheVeryHungryCaterpillar #EricCarle #JosephineD #OrangeChairClassics #TheOrangeChair

One is never too young to read and adventure. So why not to let Josephine join the fun? _______________________ #Adventure #Family #ClassicLiterature #Literature #ChildrensLiterature #Book #Bookstagram #Bookstagramer #FranzKafka #TheMetamorphosis #EricCarle #Metamorphoses #Ovid #HobbesD #JosephineD #OrangeChairMini #OrangeChairClassics #TheOrangeChair

When my son was born I read ‘Crime and Punishment’ by Dostoyevsky and so with the birth of my daughter today I decided to read another Dostoyevsky book I recently got at a library book sale. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ With that being said I’m going to take a break from social media for a couple weeks to help my wife take care of our baby girl. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Until I return enjoy this picture at ‘Adams Falls’ in Ricketts Glen State Park! ______________________________________ #RickettsGlenStatePark #RickettsGlen #StateParks #Pennsylvania #DiscoverNEPA #PACollective #ScenicPA #HikePA #Hiking #Adventure #Travel #Exploring #Nature #Landscape #Literature #TheIdiot #FyodorDostoyevsky #Dostoyevski #ClassicLiterature #Book #Bookish #Bookstagram #OrangeChairClassics #TheOrangeChair

There’s nothing like a day at the lake! ____________________________ #CalvinandHobbes #LakeNaomi #DiscoverNEPA #Travel #Beach #Lake #Poconos #Comics #Book #Literature #Bookstagram #TheOrangeChair

I'm not sure what I expected from this book, but Lewis Carroll sure made it feel like a dream. After reading it I found myself asking (much like I do after a dream), 'What a strange book! I wonder what it means?' But like many dreams, this book didn't seem to have a specific meaning. That is what makes 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' so much fun. It was a whimsical book; a silly book; a strange book; and ultimately a book worth reading when you just want your mind to wander as you chuckle along with each page. _______________________ #Roadtrip #Adventure #Exploration #Wanderlust #Travel #Ohio #OlmstedFalls #DavidFortierPark #AlicesAdventuresinWonderland #AdventuresInWonderland #LewisCarroll #Literature #ClassicLiterature #Books #Bookish #Bookstagram #Bookworm #OrangeChairClassics

David Fortier Park (Olmsted Falls, Ohio) _______________________ #Roadtrip #Adventure #Exploration #Wanderlust #Travel #Ohio #OlmstedFalls #DavidFortierPark #AlicesAdventuresinWonderland #AdventuresInWonderland #LewisCarroll #Literature #ClassicLiterature #Books #Bookish #Bookstagram #Bookworm #OrangeChairClassics #TheOrangeChair

“To think that this meaningless thing was ever a rose / Scentless, colourless, this! / Will it ever be thus (who knows?) / Thus with our bliss, / If we wait till the close? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Tho’ we care not to wait for the end, there comes the end / Sooner, later, at last / Which nothing can mar, nothing mend / An end locked fast / Bent we cannot re-bend.” ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ‘Summer is Ended’ by Christina Rossetti _______________________ #Pennsylvania #NEPA #DiscoverNEPA #PACollective #Nature #Hiking #Adventure #Travel #Waterfall #ShoholaFalls #Summer #StateGameLands #Explore #Wanderlust #Poetry #Prose #ChristinaRossetti #ClassicLiterature #Book #Bookish #OrangeChairClassics #TheOrangeChair

Shohola Falls _______________________ #Pennsylvania #NEPA #DiscoverNEPA #PACollective #Nature #Hiking #Adventure #Travel #Waterfall #ShoholaFalls #Summer #StateGameLands #Explore #Wanderlust #Poetry #Prose #ChristinaRossetti #ClassicLiterature #Book #Bookish #OrangeChairClassics #TheOrangeChair

Every time I see road work I see this anti-road work protest sign immediately after it. So I decided to make a sign and join the protest! _______________________ #Protest #RoadWork #Construction #LaborDay #Travel #Adventure #Pennsylvania #Potholes #Equality #GulliversTravels #JonathanSwift #ClassicLiterature #Book #Bookstagram #Satire #TheOrangeChair

In 2014 I started something I call ‘The Long Winter Read’ where I could pick up a lengthly classic novel (unabridged) and read through it, regardless of how long it took. Before that I was always trying to rush from one book to the next, but establishing a time to read without rushing was so healthy for me. In the process I discovered one of my favorite books ‘War and Peace’. That set up the rest of my year, and during the next 11 months I explored some really awesome books, and found my current favorite book, ‘Watership Down’ - which I love because of all of its folklore and depth - and ‘The Mysterious Island’ my favorite Jules Verne book. _ Over the course of the year I read so many different genres and styles of books. Books I would normally read, books I would never pick up, and even a book a dear friend of mine always thought so highly of - ‘The Bell Jar’. One book ‘The Octopus’ I had seen at a local library bookshop, always loved the cover, but never bought. When I heard the shop closed down I rushed to local library and had them track down the book which I bought for a $1. It was such an interesting book about poetry, life out west and wealth. _ From Jules Verne, to J.K. Rowling, to Hemingway, to Sylvia Plath, that year was quite a year for reading for me. _ Do you see any of your favorites in this book stack? ___________________________ #LeoTolstoy #WarandPeace #HarryPotter #JKRowling #ErnestHemingway #TheOldManAndTheSea #WatershipDown #RichardAdams #GKChesterton #TheMagiciansNephew #CSLewis #Narnia #TheBellJar #SylviaPlath #OHenry #TheMysteriousIsland #JulesVerne #TheHeartofDarkness #JoesphConrad #ThePictureofDorianGray #OscarWilde #TheOctopus #FrankNorris #Bookstack #Book #Bookstagram #ClassicLiterature #OrangeChairClassics #TheOrangeChair

‘Tuck Everlasting’ is not an amazing book, but there is something about the story that has always intrigued me. Growing up I used to rent the movie and would watch it where no one could see me watching a “chick-flick” I wanted to see the story again, but felt like I couldn’t embrace the beauty of it because of the genre of movie. There is just something so very interesting about the idea of living forever, and what you would do if the water from the Foster’s woods was given to you. Obviously, the movie and the book go about aspects of the story differently, but many aspects of the story carry over into both. _ My favorite part of both the book and the movie is when Tuck takes Winnie out of the lake to talk to her about the ‘cycle of life’. It is one of those scenes that just sticks with a person, and reminds them of the beauty of life and death together, ‘No,’ said Tuck calmly, ‘Not now. Your time’s not now. But dyings part of the wheel, right there next to being born. You can’t pick out the pieces you like and leave the rest. Being part of the whole thing, that’s the blessing. But it’s passing us by, us Tucks …. You can’t have living without dying. So you can’t call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, rocks beside the road.’ _ There are strange aspects to the book, like Winnie’s obsession with a toad, ‘the man in the yellow suit’ - who always reminds me of Curious George - and Winnie pretending to be a prisoner in jail. The character development seems rushed at times, while in other scenes - mostly the ones on the pond - something deeper is at work. Chapters, also, seem to jump around sometimes serving their purpose, and other times giving away too much information too early. Overall, however, the idea of the story itself is what wins me over. It was a quick read, but I still wonder what I would have done with water that would let me live forever. _ What would you do? _______________________ #LackawannaStatePark #StateParks #Pennsylvania #Lackawanna #Adventure #Travel #Exploring #Nature #Literature #TuckEverlasting #NatalieBabbitt #ClassicLiterature #Book #Bookish #Bookstagram #OrangeChairClassics #TheOrangeChair

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