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Offline Mikey

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Getty Villa
« on: October 16, 2006, 04:31:03 PM »
Our garden club visited the Getty Villa in Malibu today.  This museum has been closed for renovation work for about ten years and recently opened again.  Below is the south garden.  It overlooks the Pacific, which is just under the tree line there somewhere….


This is the herb garden.  It was very fragrant…. o(:-)


Here’s another herb garden inside the courtyard of the museum.


The bronze statues in the courtyard had these very eerie looking eyes that distracted ones attention from the statues.  The docent said that during the renovation all the statues had been put into storage and the eyes were removed so as not to loose them.  However, upon retrieving the statues from the storage warehouse they have yet been able to locate the eyes and these eyes were painted on them pending the re-discovery of the real eyes…… ::) lol

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Re: Getty Villa
« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2006, 04:44:01 PM »
Wow absolutely gorgeous.
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Re: Getty Villa
« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2006, 07:34:30 PM »
Wow, what a great tour, but those eyes are too wierd.

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Re: Getty Villa
« Reply #3 on: October 16, 2006, 07:37:56 PM »
Nice photos Mike.

I always preferred this 'original; Getty to the over the top job gracing the hilltop. Always a bit of a challenge to park in Malibu though.

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Re: Getty Villa
« Reply #4 on: October 17, 2006, 07:25:28 AM »
Um, Gee . . . . that's just exactly what my gardens look like!!!  (Not!)

Gorgeous!  I would sure like to live there . . . . with about a hundred servants, yardmen and gardners . . .
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Re: Getty Villa
« Reply #5 on: October 17, 2006, 07:41:09 AM »
looks like a beautiful place to visit.  The statue is creepy though.
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Re: Getty Villa
« Reply #6 on: October 17, 2006, 07:46:30 AM »
That's very beautiful.

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Re: Getty Villa
« Reply #7 on: October 17, 2006, 08:51:53 AM »
Those eyes are too funny! Definitely creepy. But the gardens are beautiful. That herb garden is fabulous.
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