Richie, because of the shape of the flowers, I don't think its a Magnolia. I enlarged your very fine capture to identify this flowering shrub, but couldn't doing this positively. My guess it's a Rododendron. I'm curious whether other Caedes friends have an opinion about that.
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Its beautiful and unusually placed making a great composition. I may be wrong (it has been known lol) but it looks like a rhododendron to me. I'd probably bet on it :)
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