Traveling west on Sunset...

...from the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles, Sunset Blvd. takes you into East Hollywood...in the early days of Hollywood, this was the home of many film studios...now it's quite different...

The beautifully restored 1920's

Vista Theater stands at the intersection of Sunset

and Hollywood Blvd...a last bit of "old Hollywood", this was once the lot where D.W. Griffith built the famous "Babylon" set for his epic "Intolerance"...

Just north of Sunset is Barnsdall Art Park which sits on top of Olive Hill...with the municipal gallery and Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House, built for Aline Barnsdall.  My favorite thing about the park is the views out to the city in every direction!

A sliver of Sunset Blvd. and the city beyond seen through two Kaiser

Hospital buildings...and the Hollyhock House seen from Sunset, over hospital construction...

A local Capoeira group practices on the lawn at Barnsdall Park...

and a view of Barnsdall seen from Kaiser Hospital on a bright winter day...

Views of my favorite building in Los Angeles, the Griffith Observatory, seen from Olive Hill...

Exotic Los Angeles Buildings

...is a subject I've only begun to explore!  As a Los Angeles native, I love the "anything goes" attitude that extends even to architecture...from very modern to numerous "revival" styles...and of course the truly exotic buildings...

Drawing downtown...two views of Gehry's Disney Concert Hall..I will tackle this fabulous building again!

I love the shapes and colors in Meier's Getty Center...

...and the slightly eccentric Japanese Gallery at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art by Bruce Goff...

The Hollyhock House was Frank Lloyd Wright's first building in Los Angeles, commissioned by Aline Barnsdall and built in 1921--now part of Barnsdall Park--is often referred to as "Mayan Revival".  He called it "California Romanza"...

...and the Self-Realization Fellowship with its lotus finials on  Sunset Blvd...

The spires of the Holy Transfiguration Russian Orthodox Church rise above a derelict super market...from Sunset Blvd.