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Southern mountain photographer Lori Kincaid celebrates one of the region's true beauties.
Lori Kincaid
Come May and June, the Southern Appalachians don one of their prettiest and most-cherished accessories – the explosion of color of the rhododendron as they light up the edges of balds, the rocky crags and streamsides.