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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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Austin T. Blakeslee Natural Area

February 2, 2018 Jeremiah Dowling Leave a comment

Location: Austin T. Blakeslee Natural Area
Book: ‘The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe’ by C.S. Lewis

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Orchard End

October 3, 2017 Jeremiah Dowling Leave a comment

Location: Apple Tree @ Orchard End (Blakeslee, PA)
Book: ‘Prince Caspian’ by C.S. Lewis

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Levitation (5.24.17)

May 24, 2017 Jeremiah Dowling Leave a comment

Location: ‘Floating’ in the Air (Blakeslee, PA)
Book: ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’ by J.K. Rowling

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Tri-State Monument _____________________ #Boundary #TriStateMonument #NewYork #NewJersey #Pennsylvania #DelawareRiver #Travel #Adventure #AtlasShrugged #AynRand #Book #Bookstagram #BookWorm #TheOrangeChair

Only 3 weeks until the end!! Join us on November 10th to say goodbye to #TheOrangeChair. ____________________________ #Adventure #Explore #Travel #Pennsylvania #SevenTubs #Hiking #Book #InvisibleMan #RalphEllison #Bookstagram #BookWorm

Tobyhanna State Park _______________________ #Poconos #PoconoMtns #Pennsylvania #TobyhannaStatePark #DiscoverNEPA #ScenicPA #PACollective #Nature #Travel #Hiking #NaturePhotography #Autumn #ClassicLiterature #Book #AllQuietOnTheWesternFront #BookWorm #Bookstagram #TheOrangeChair

Waking up to frost on the plateau! _____________________ #Poconos #PoconoMtns #ThomasDarlingPreserve #Pennsylvania #Frost #Autumn #Nature #Hiking #NaturePhotography #Adventure #DiscoverNEPA #PACollective #ScenicPA #412pics

I love seeing the Autumn colors come to life! _______________________ #Poconos #PoconoMtns #Pennsylvania #Tobyhanna #DiscoverNEPA #ScenicPA #PACollective #Nature #Travel #Hiking #NaturePhotography #Autumn #Bog #TheWindInTheWillows #KennethGrahame #ClassicLiterature #Book #Bookstagram #BookWorm #TheOrangeChair

Bake Oven Knob is one of my favorite overlooks around! It was the place I took my wife on our first date. Being on the edge is an exciting place to be. _____________________ #Pennsylvania #Overlook #Hiking #Adventure #BakeOvenKnob #ApplachianTrail #PACollective #ScenicPA #EdgarAllenPoe #Poems #Poetry #ClassicLiterature #Book #BookWorm #Bookstagram #TheOrangeChair ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Thanks @ben_jacoby11 for helping me take these pictures!!

Congrats @lovemelovemyumbrella on winning a FREE 2019 Orange Chair Calendar!! Don’t worry if you didn’t win though, there are plenty left. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Check out my Etsy shop in the bio. _______________________ #Giveaway #Contest #Win #Calendar #InstaGivaway #2019 #WallCalendar #ClassicLiterature #Adventure #Travel #Book #Holidays #TheOrangeChair

GIVEAWAY!! The 2019 Orange Chair Calendar is here and I’m giving one away!!! To Enter simply: ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 1. Follow my page @orangechairadventures ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 2.Tag two friends in the comments. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ It’s that easy! I will pick a winner at random on Wednesday at 9am. This giveaway is for US Residents only and is not sponsored, endorsed, administered by, or associated with Instagram. If you want a calendar and don’t win check out the link to my Etsy shop in my bio! _______________________ #Giveaway #Contest #Win #Calendar #InstaGivaway #2019 #WallCalendar #Adventure #Travel #Book #Holidays #TheOrangeChair

Worlds End State Park _______________________ #Pennsylvania #StatePark #WorldsEndStatePark #Travel #Landscape #PACollective #ScenicPA #Throwback #Eragon #ChristopherPaolini #Fantasy #Literature #Book #Bookworm #Bookstagram #TheOrangeChair

Here There Be Monsters!! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ _______________________ #NavyYardSeaMonster #DiscovertheYard #Philadelphia #Pennsylvania #Travel #Adventure #Monsters #DrJekyllandMrHyde #RobertLouisStevenson #Book #ClassicLiterature #Bookstagram #BookWorm #TheOrangeChair

I can see how ‘Ten Little Indians’ (or ‘And Then There Were None’ as it is now known) is considered Agatha Christie’s best. Not that I have read any other of Agatha Christie’s work - I haven’t - but this story was one I couldn’t put down. The set-up for the whole thing was a bit tedious at first. I began to wonder how she could make a story about ten different people not long and drawn out, but I was surprised at how that is the very thing that made the book great. Ten people, ten perspectives, who was the killer, who could you trust, who was next, etc… There isn’t much more more to say. It was an additive book, I couldn’t put it down, and in all my best attempts I could rarely see what would happen next. _______________________ #Blakeslee #Poconos #Pennsylvania #Travel #Adventure #ClassicLiterature #AgathaChristie #Mystery #MurderMystery #Novel #Book #Bookstagram #Bookworm #TheOrangeChair

Someone once gave me three Agatha Christie books and yet I had never read any of her books before. So when I saw her book ‘And Then There Were None’ was on the list for #TheGreatAmericanRead I got my books out to see what I had. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Turns out none of them had that title - which was a bummer. Being I had gone so far as to look I decided to see if the ones I had were any good. But as I was researching them I found out one book I had - ‘Ten Little Indians’ - was in fact the same book with an old title. Hurray!! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ So I decided to start reading it. _______________________ #Blakeslee #Poconos #Pennsylvania #Travel #Adventure #ClassicLiterature #AgathaChristie #Mystery #Novel #Book #Bookstagram #Bookworm #TheOrangeChair

‘Gathering Blue’ is a book I’ve been wanting to read since I found out about it in college. I have always loved ‘The Giver’ and was excited to read another story from the same author. This year (almost 10 years later) I finally decided to pick it up. It wasn’t as inspiring as ‘The Giver’ had been, and seemed to have less overall depth to it, but there are aspects of the book that I really loved. The world that Kira lived in felt similar to Jonas’, but was, in the end, vastly different. ‘The Giver’ focused so much on an utopian society that centered on equality. In ‘Gathering Blue’, however, there is poverty and people are cast aside if they are seen to be a hinderance to the community. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Even with her disabilities, however, Kira, like Jonas in ‘The Giver’, is given a special task and brought into a section of society that is unknown to most. As she works on the Singer’s Robe, mends the intricately woven designs, and learns to create dyes for her work, she begins to look at the world differently. She goes beyond the confines of her room to seek the answers to her questions about art, ability, freedom and the future. What transpires is an intriguing look at how society can affect the freedom we have to both live and create, what it truly means to be an artist, and how it takes special people to reach beyond that norm. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ As the second book in the Giver Quartet I’m intrigued with how it connects with the other books, I guess I’ll have to pick up ’Messanger’ soon. _______________________ #GatheringBlue #LoisLowry #GiverQuartet #Literature #YALiterature #Book #Bookstagram #Bookish #Bookworm #OrangeChairClassics

Vibrant colors are starting to break out in the foliage. I love Autumn in the Poconos! _______________________ #Poconos #PoconoMtns #Pennsylvania #TobyhannaStatePark #DiscoverNEPA #ScenicPA #PACollective #Nature #Travel #Hiking #NaturePhotography #Autumn

I finally got around to hiking down to Hawk Falls in Hickory Run State Park. It’s amazing how peaceful it is when all the tourists are gone. ____________________________ #Poconos #PoconoMtns #Pennsylvania #HawkFalls #HickoryRunStatePark #DiscoverNEPA #ScenicPA #PACollective #Nature #Travel #Hiking #GatheringBlue #LoisLowry #YALiterature #Book #Bookstagram #Bookish #TheOrangeChair

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'The Idiot' is an intriguing book. Like many of Dostoyevsky's books there is a depth of dialog within in that one must dig through to find all it's meaning. Yet, in the same breath, the characters are relatable. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Prince Myshkin (aka 'The Idiot) has a strange innocence and likability about him. It is something that keeps getting him caught up in dilemmas where he, in his ignorance, often goes with the flow and often makes things worse. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The world around him takes advantage of him, tricks him, and throws him around, but he changes very little over the course of the book. When picking up the book one might expect a more traditional story, but this one really pulls one back to thinking who they relate to more: the one perceived to be 'an idiot' or the corrupt people around him. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Also, I really love this cover! ______________________________________ #RickettsGlenStatePark #RickettsGlen #StateParks #Pennsylvania #DiscoverNEPA #PACollective #ScenicPA #HikePA #Hiking #Adventure #Travel #Exploring #Nature #Landscape #Literature #TheIdiot #FyodorDostoyevsky #Dostoyevski #ClassicLiterature #Book #Bookish #WordsworthClassics #Bookstagram #OrangeChairClassics #TheOrangeChair

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

To my favorite dog, Happy Eighth Birthday ‘Boo’ Radley!! ______________________ #Dogstagram #Roverandom #JRRTolkien #PitBull #Dog #Radley #Reading #Rover #ClassicLiterature #Book #Bookstagram #Tolkien #TheOrangeChair

Spruce Swamp Natural Area _______________________ #Poconos #Pennsylvania #Hiking #Nature #DiscoverNEPA #PACollective #ScenicPA #Travel #Adventure #Throwback #Sophocles #ThreeThebanPlays #ClassicLiterature #Plays #Book #Bookstagram #TheOrangeChair

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