We finally Captured Uncle Dick in Willaimsburg

Bob & Marty Join the Blog

We are glad to join the family blog! We had some help from Aunt Josie but now we got it! Too busy with tomotoes to say much more right now . We will be back!

Valicenti Origanico

Ripped From the Headlines

OK, so you won't find any crime scene investigations here (or at least, not yet!) - I'm just trying to get your attention.

This is ripped from the "sports" pages. And while I reserve the right to brag with reckless abandon, I'll let the editors of the sports section do it for me this time :-).

Click on the picture of the article below to see an enlarged version you can read.

Not to be left out of the limelight, Xander (center blonde-shaggy-haired kid below) also had his day in the soccer sun, when he and big sis (left of Xander) got to carry the San Jose Earthquakes team flag on the field during a Major League Soccer game.

Eating insects?! Have things gotten that bad for the Olivero's?

Not yet. We will resort to eating bugs though (not as in Bugs Bunny either - though we'll eat those too). While eating at a restaurant in Santa Monica, we ate crickets! A popular food item in many parts of Southeast Asia, the kids were ready to abide by the "when-in-Rome" rule. Sharpening their bizarre-foods eating skills, they are eager to challenge others in the "whats-the-wierdest-thing-you've-eaten?" game - already on their list: sushi of all kinds, eel, sea urchin, jellyfish, crickets, goose liver, chicken heart. Any takers?

Thats more than my fill for blogging now. Hopefully won't be too long before I have something else out of the ordinary to share... We Outlaws have a reputation to uphold.

Beswick Wins Blue Ribbon

MJ ( alias Aunt Josie) won a Blue Ribbon at the Rappahannock Art League Annual Labor Day Exhibit with her latest non-objective painting (Left) entitled "Cocktail Time". There were 174 entrants in this popular exhibit which was judged by Stephen Griffin, Professor Emeritus of Art at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Ten ribbons in all were awarded.

MJ will be teaching a four day workshop this week at the RAL Academy entitled "Free your Imagination, Caution: Inner Child at Play" The first two images (above) are examples of small works (6 x6") made from one exercise she has developed for this workshop.

A visit to Roden Crater

Approach to Roden Crater, somewhere outside Flagstaff...........

Inside the Crater's telescope designed to project astrolical events

Crater Sky Space

I'm the dot to the right in a meditative state of heightend visual perception....................

Can you tell? :)

Sky vaulting from the crater's eye......

Traversing the edge.

Hello All!

My sister has been using her subtle, yet powerful, means of persuasion to get me to add to the blog. Uncle Karl's mastery at uploading images was the final insentive. I have to say its taken many attempts to get them in the proper order...........

Often accused (and guilty) of not documenting my adventures.........I'm sharing my visit to Roden Crater this past July. It's the master work of the artist James Turrell. After 25 years, it's unfinished, and not open to the public. It's the hot ticket in the art world- so it was really an unexpected surprise to get an invitation! The artist will be having two of his pieces installed on the roof terrace of the museum I'm currently working on.

Here are 2 links if anyone is interested in learning more about the Crater.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/arts/highlights/001102_turrell.shtml

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/25/arts/design/25fink.html

Enjoy seeing and hearing what everyone is up to! (Great job Aunt Josie!) Hope all are well!

love,

Sandra