LA Observed (Enlarge photo)

03/07/2008 06:56. Stephen Roullier, who lives across from Echo Park Lake, is one of many thousands of people who have mourned the lotus this year. Roullier expressed his mourning with a small-scale installation -- a photo of a lotus staked by the lake, where the lotus used to be, shown in the picture below. Shadows tell us it was taken in the early-ish morning.

In a note to Martin Cox , Roullier wrote: "Wouldn't it be beautiful if hundreds of other photographers... // LA Observed