The isolation of these places adds to their beauty. Right now, the dogwoods and redbuds are showing off their glory.
Wild flowers abound.
Walk up any holler and you are apt to find a dozen different plants in bloom. You also are just as apt to find an illegal dump. In my ramblings around Eastern Kentucky's hills and hollers, I have often come upon illegal garbage dumps that are so full of unknown wastes that I wonder whether they couldn't be included on the federal toxic-waste list. The buzzards that inhabit the area's rock cliffs won't go near some of these places. I am not suggesting that Eastern Kentucky alone has this problem, nor even Kentucky alone.