Photo by Martin Cox, July 13, 2007

A domestic-style goose mingled with chairs. And with the invited, who had made her home their island Friday night during a pre-Lotus Festival fundraiser meal on the Echo Park Lake island. (The island, which usually is off-limits to human visitors, probably has a name.) The bird and turtles may have been put out by the Rec and Parks event and by the fireworks, but at least...

...the pedal boats seem to have been booked solid throughout the Lotus Fest weekend.