Here is another blossom of rhododendron from about a quarter mile west of the previous one shown below. The one is occupied by a pair of unidentified insects doing whatever it is that "birds ... bees ... even educated fleas" do. My thanks to Dr. David Royster of UNC-Charlotte for identifying our local wild Rhododendron as R. Maximus (Great Rhododendron) which is sometimes called Great Laurel in the Appalachians but, as I noted earlier, is not Mountain Laurel. Dr. Royster is a math prof, but he maintains a very nice site for Rhododendrons at http://education.uncc.edu/droyster/gardens.html