Selma, Ala. Daily Photo: Swallowtails

Monday, July 26, 2010

Swallowtails

Butterflies love these summer blooms, and a pair of swallowtails stopped by long enough for a picture!

Thanks to guest photographer Elaine Stewart!

4 comments:

Halcyon said...: Beautiful! They hardly ever stop long enough for me to capture their images. How lucky for your guest photographer!; July 26, 2010 at 10:20 AM
Kate said...: These are wonderful portraits of unbelieveably complicated creatures.; July 27, 2010 at 4:00 PM
Lowell said...: Swallowtails are gorgeous. We have had a few here and I've tried to get some photos, but it's hard. I call them "flutterbys"!; July 27, 2010 at 7:27 PM
Bergson said...: so cute; July 28, 2010 at 2:35 AM

WELCOME!

Selma is among the oldest cities in Alabama and has the largest contiguous historic district. It is known for its Civil War and Civil Rights history. The Battle of Selma was one of the last fought in the War Between the States, and the town was a center for the Voting Rights Movement in the 1960s. Today, with a population of about 20,000, Selma is the largest town in the western Black Belt region. The Black Belt, named for the color of its soil, stretches across Central Alabama from Mississippi to Georgia.