Rhody

In doing the metering from the rhody leaves you will compensate for the overbrightness of the sky.

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I looked out the window and tried to see over the pink rhododendrons and down the block. […] I couldn’t see a thing but a tangle of leathery rhody leaves, and over that, two neighbors standing on the sidewalk talking.

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Jesse gave a whoop, then was out of the saddle and ducking behind a clump of rhododendron, putting his horse crosswise between himself and the beeves. […] A musket ball ripped through rhody leaves near his head.

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