Happiest of birthdays to my beautiful partner in crime and best buddy @tekaselman . Mother Nature enveloped the day with an elegant blanket of snow and we celebrated with the girls by a warm fire. Here’s to many more! Love you, Teka! ❄️♥️🌹🔥
It was pure joy Friday night at the artists’ preview of the Studio Museum in Harlem. The new building is extraordinary, and only surpassed by the tremendous warmth of the community of decades of artists, curators and collaborators who came together to celebrate the institution. Huge congratulations and giant thank you to Director @thelmagolden for your vision and support and for always making the Studio Musuem feel like home. Friday was a beautiful reunion and glimpse into the future. ♥️
Celebrating the genius of D’Angelo (Michael Archer) and Fela Kuti (born on this day in 1938) with this photo: recording a cover of Fela’s “Water No Get Enemy” for @redhotorg all-star tribute album “Red Hot + Riot” in 2002.
Pictured: D’Angelo on keyboard, Nile Rogers on guitar, James Poyser (background), Pino Palladino… (not pictured: Femi Kuti, Questlove, Roy Hargrove, Macy Gray, etc)!! Produced by my friend @heckpaul and @levinandres
Those day were all Fela all the time… amazing memories and moments!
Rest in Power D’Angelo. ♥️
Wildlife we’ve enjoyed around the house as we’ve transitioned from late summer to fall.
1) American toad
2) Wavy-lined Emerald moth caterpillar with floral camouflage.
3) Praying Mantis on its favorite spot
4) Fowler’s toad
5) Red-spotted Purple butterfly mimicking the toxic pipevine swallowtail
6) Green Treefrog
7) Butterflies on Joe-Pye Weed
8) Red-headed Meadow Katydid
9) American Toad
10) Cope’s gray tree frog
11) Green Anole
12) Gray Tree Frog
13) Green Anole blending with the brick
14) Morning Glory
15) Green Anole jump
16) Anole on wood
17) Red shouldered Hawk
18) American Dagger moth caterpillar on oak sapling
19) Eastern Mole
20) Red Maple
Most wildlife is too fleeting or far away to capture with a photo so you gotta just enjoy the moment. But here’s a few recent visitors and residents who stuck around for a moment.
1-3) Eastern Box Turtle digging a hole for her eggs.
4) Black rat snake
5) Zebra Swallowtail
6) American Lady
7) Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (female)
8) Fiery Skipper
9) Carpenter bee on rattlesnake master
10) Pearl Crescent
11) Isabella Tiger Moth
12) Black Walnut fruit
13) Newborn fawn in the rain
Our native plantings are doing their thing—adding beauty and giving life—supporting the insects, birds and other imperiled wildlife that play such critical roles in the ecosystem. Even small actions add up.
#pollinatormonth
1) our pollinator garden
2) silver-spotted skipper on purple coneflower
3) bumblebee with pollen collected on its leg
4) buttonbush with flat-tailed leafcutter bee
5) young redbud leaves showing leafcutter bee precision
6) pawpaw sphinx caterpillar on winterberry bush
7) delta flower scarab on rattlesnake master
8) flat-tailed leafcutter bee on back-eyed Susan
9) sweetbay magnolia
10) praying mantis on coneflower
11) goldfinches enjoying coneflower seeds
12) banded longhorn beetle on wild quinine
13) brown-belted bumble bee on stoke’s aster
14) transverse-banded flower fly
15) bud on passion flower vine
16) ladybug on dogwood leaf
17) Horace’s duskywing butterfly on wild quinine
18) bicolored striped sweat bee
19) bumblebees on thistle
20) tiger swallowtail butterfly chased away by bumblebee
