Entertaining Sites Around LOS ANGELES

Check her out. She is balanced entirely on her hip and she’s doing really really hard leg lifts.

Something new is on the scene – a naked little boy holding a frog by its leg, made of painted fiberglass, by Charles Ray and called ‘Boy with Frog’. Hi cutie.

I just read that he’s going to be leaving in January 2012, just in time for me to have gotten used to having him around.

You can get yourself some good eats at the Getty.

The premium restaurant (The Restaurant) is right up there with LA fine dining establishments including Cal-Trendy yet well prepared food and a well respected wine list.

The self service cafe is more museum standard but even at that the quality and selection of the food and the expansive, scenic location make it a most comfortable spot for lunch. This shot is out the back door of the cafe.

You know that funky sculpture prominently featured as you get off the tram? The one that everyone hates?

I like it. Because it seems somehow brave, standing there all huge and a-kimbo and the object of such scorn. It makes nice shapes, and the engineering is cool, and it’s been there from the beginning and we’d miss it if it was gone.

Martin Puryear “That Profile,” commissioned for the site in 1999. You can see it this way if you are walking up instead of taking the tram.