Our Azalea bush was beautiful this year. I am posting this for the 21st but actually took it on the 20th. The reason was that on the evening of the 21st a line of thunderstorms passed through our area producing hail the size of marbles. My wife saw one the size of a jack ball, 3 inches (2.5cm) in diameter. As you might imagine it wreaked havoc on the poor Azalea bush. We lost our power at 7:54 pm and it wasn't restored until between 3 and 4 am on the 23rd. The outages were so widespread that crews had to be brought in from other areas. Thankfully a good friend loaned us his generator.
Beautiful flower and pov. I once visited my brother and the azaleas were so pretty. It was late, though, and I would take photos "tomorrow". A storm came through and all the flowers were gone! I hope you didn't have any damage.
@danette - We were very fortunate. There were trees down all around us. Not close but not too far either. The only damage was throwing out some food in our refrigerator since it was more than four hours before we got the generator. And evidently a hail stone or stones hit our hummingbird feeder and broke the top and two of the bee guards.
