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Pocono Rhododendron & Caterpillar in the Pines

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Spring Decomposers in Bloom – Tree Fungus – Poconos, NEPA

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Pocono Treeman – Early Spring Wishes / From an Arboreal Chap / Who Guards Our Driveway #haiku

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Pocono Insects & Butterflies

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Red Spotted Purple © Frank H. Jump

Grasshopper & Coccinellidae © Frank H. Jump

Turkey Feather in Thistle Haiku – Poconos

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With wing on the wind
Thistle trapped turkey feather
Thanksgiving’s remnant

Midland Painted Turtle in the Trout Lilies & Pond – Pocono Springs – Newfoundland, PA

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I almost ran this guy over with my RV and trailer yesterday. I managed to swerve and go safely over him. By the time I stopped the rig and ran back to see him, he had run over to the side. I told him to stay put while I went home and got my camera. Ten minutes later, he was still there and ready for a photo shoot.

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Autumn Pocono Toadstool – Paddenstoel

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Taken with iPhone © Frank H. Jump

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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

Pocono Weekly Fungus – What a Difference a Day Makes

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Pocono Weekly Fungus – Pocono Springs, NEPA

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A Memorial Day Weekend Cycle Through the Poconos

On Aberdeen Road - © Frank H. Jump

On Aberdeen Road - © Frank H. Jump

On Aberdeen Road - © Frank H. Jump

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

On Aberdeen Road - © Frank H. Jump

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

On Aberdeen Road - © Frank H. Jump

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

On Aberdeen Road - © 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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