Palamedes

This Palamedes Swallowtail I waited over ten minutes to come closer as Mr Thomas and another man sat in the four-wheel drive pickups behind me on the dirt road watching, talking of dogs and land ownership and stuff other than butterflies. I did not know what to call the Elegant Blazing Star plants, could not think of what the Zebra Swallowtail was. He said he thought the blazing stars were from the dog fennel family. I told him I was trying to photograph a rare butterfly. He probably wrote me off a cuckoo.