Tuesday morning, 9 a.m. walking Echo Park Lake clockwise, with Joan Valencia, Jindo the jindo dog (cultural treasure of South Korea #54), Rosie the mixed-breed dog (canine treasure of my household #1) and my daughter, Madeleine. Sunny and peaceful, everything looks a little fresh and charged because I know it will all change soon, when the lake is emptied, the grounds torn up for revamping. Right now, it's lovely even though there's a lot of garbage in the water, mostly pushed against the lake's edges. Joan tells me three muscovy ducks, with clipped wings, have been dumped at the lake recently, but they seem to be okay. They've survived three weeks, which is at least one test of time.