Our rhododendron is in full bloom again this spring. I recall one our famous authors of Appalachian region, John Fox, who wrote a wonderful short story entitled "A Purple Rhododendron". It is the story of a hunted man's love for his beloved and the elusive beautiful flower along the precarious high mountain cliff in a Gap that he sought to express that love. A moving story well worth a pause to enjoy. See it here
http://www.online-literature.com/john-fox/1630/
Ps. John Fox was raised in the Bluegrass region where I was born. He wrote several books that focused on the mountainous region that he eventually moved to for his health, and where one branch of my family still resides along the Virginia-Kentucky line.
http://www.english.eku.edu/services/kylit/fox.htm
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