Thorned Red Berries & Crab Apples – NEPA

La Anna, NEPA © Frank H. Jump

Mountaintop, NEPA © Frank H. Jump

Pianos – Wilkes-Barre, PA

© Frank H. Jump

Coal – Ice – Wood – Hotel Turock – Dickson City, PA – March, 2006

'35¢ Per 100 Lbs" © Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Autumn Pocono Toadstool – Paddenstoel

Taken with iPhone © Frank H. Jump

Taken with iPhone © Frank H. Jump

Sometimes the iPhone camera surprises me.

The terms “Mushroom” and “Toadstool” go back centuries and were never precisely defined, nor was there consensus on application.

The term “toadstool” was often, but not exclusively, applied to poisonous mushrooms or to those that have the classic umbrella-like cap-and-stem form. Between 1400 and 1600 A.D., the terms tadstoles, frogstooles, frogge stoles, tadstooles, tode stoles, toodys hatte, paddockstool, puddockstool, paddocstol, toadstoole, and paddockstooles sometimes were used synonymously with mushrom, mushrum, muscheron, mousheroms, mussheron, or musserouns.

The word has apparent analogies in Dutch padde(n)stoel (toad-stool/chair, mushroom) and German Krötenschwamm (toad-fungus, alt. word for panther cap). Others have proposed a connection with German “Todesstuhl” (lit. “death’s chair”). Since Tod is a direct cognate to death, in that case it would be a German borrowing. – Wikipedia

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Cubanola Cigars – P.H. Kearney Wholesale Wines & Liquor – Hawley, PA

© Frank H. Jump

Saturated and heavy hued © Frank H. Jump

Saturated and heavy hued © Frank H. Jump

Wholesale Wines & Liquors © Frank H. Jump

Agent for log cabin © Frank H. Jump

Early Times & Penwick © Frank H. Jump

Other Cubanola Cigar pics on Flickr

Peck Lumber Mfg. Co. – Peckville, PA

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Peckville

Williamsport was once the unofficial lumber capital of the world, but northeastern Pennsylvania also “saw” its share of the lumber industry as well. For many years the Peck Lumber Manufacturing Company contributed heavily to the region’s economy. The operation was begun by Samuel Peck of Massachusetts. – Nepa Newsletter dot com

Derelict Gas Pump – St. Tikhun Road – Outside South Canaan, PA

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Bloch Bro’s – Honesdale, NEPA

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Caterpillars Feasting on Fir Needle – St. Tikhun Monastery – South Canaan, NEPA

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Pocono Weekly Fungus – What a Difference a Day Makes

© Frank H. Jump

Pocono Weekly Fungus – Pocono Springs, NEPA

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

A Memorial Day Weekend Cycle Through the Poconos

On Aberdeen Road - © Frank H. Jump

On Aberdeen Road, near Aberdeen. - © Frank H. Jump

On Aberdeen Road, near Aberdeen. A hare in the distance. - © Frank H. Jump

On Aberdeen Road, near Aberdeen. A hare in the distance. - © Frank H. Jump

A hare in the distance. - © Frank H. Jump

On Rte 435 near Moscow. - © Frank H. Jump

On Rte 435 near Moscow. - © Frank H. Jump

Old gas pump on Aberdeen Road, near Aberdeen. - © Frank H. Jump

Enzo in front of old gas pump on Aberdeen Road, near Aberdeen. - © Frank H. Jump

Old gas pump on Aberdeen Road, near Aberdeen. - © Frank H. Jump

Towne & Country Motor Inn – Rte 196 – Mt. Pocono, PA

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

More Turkey Hens on the Prowl in the Poconos

© Frank H. Jump