Undercarriage down, preparing to land
Seeing a Swallowtail butterfly in Italy is always a shock. They are just so big:
![Swallowtail Butterfly - Matera - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Matera-The-Hall-of-Einar-6340-725x725.jpg)
The Parco della Murgia Materana is full of them. There’s the scent of Thyme as we walk through the dry fields. It’s as if we’re intruding on someone’s herb garden.
I attempt a photograph of a Swallowtail in flight:
![Swallowtail Butterfly - Matera - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Matera-The-Hall-of-Einar-6319-725x483.jpg)
It has all six legs dangling ready to catch hold of this flower. What an amazing feat of natural engineering.