We had come out of a store. It had been raining. This guy was in the driveway, still fluttering.
I don’t know from butterflies – well, for all I know this guy’s a moth. Either way, I didn’t know if it was hurt, just trying to dry off from the passing shower, or preparing to go for the throat of the next Rottweiler that passed by. So I just took the picture.
I also notice that the asphalt driveways in Vermont are MUCH more colorful and rocky and interesting than our plain, dull, black ones here in California.
It’s a swallowtail butterfly, and judging from its condition, it’s probably newly emerged.
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