Frank Stella’s very large painting at the San Diego Museum of Art in Balboa Park is one in a group of paintings he called “Protractor Series.”  I like it and don’t know why.  Perhaps it is the boldness of his idea.  I think he called it “Flin Elon VIII.”  It was done in 1970.  

Perhaps I like it for the same reason that I like two photographs I got this morning at the new park at Paradise Village.  One of those pictures is of a little group of toadstools, and the other is  of small rocks on the bottom of a pool of water in the park.