You might get better results if you post this on the Azalea & rhodie forum. There are some real experts on these plants there.

Here is a link that might be useful: Azalea and Rhododendron Forum

I'd move this to Azalea/Rhododendron forum too, but from the little I can see from your photo my first guess would be azalea lace bug. Are there black tarnished places on the undersides of any of those leaves?

yes.. as I looked on the underside I saw the little buggers... now I need to look up the safest lace
bug killer