The days are turning to summer in the mountains, but the mornings are still cool and delightful up on the trails. It’s rhododendron season in Appalachian. Such a lush and lovely time of year!
Small’s beardstongue growing along the trail. 
This might be another type of beardstongue but correct me if I’m wrong! 
This is the creek along what we’ve dubbed Fairy Tale Trail. Nature’s air conditioning! 
West Virginia’s state flower blooms in abundance here, too!
The greenery is so refreshing—rhododendrons are wild in your parts?
Wildly wild! They grow so thickly in the mountains that they’re known as rhododendron hells because it’s hellish trying to get through them!
Crazy! My father loved rhodies and they were planted all over our yard. That would be something to see them grow so thick to be a jungle!