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offering access to digital cameras, computers, career services, and academic and arts programming. St.Mary’s teens have photographed a myriad of events, ranging from coverage of Tribeca Film Fellowsscreenings to Parks & Recreation festivals such as WinterJam, Street Games, and Drums Along the Hudson.The Daffodil Project is an annual volunteer beautification effort that began between New Yorkers for Parksand Parks & Recreation in the days after 9/11 when Dutch bulb supplier Hans Van Waardenburg of B&KFlowerbulbs donated a half a million daffodils to the City of New York in a gesture of support. This past fall,the four millionth bulb was planted and the Project has grown to include a year-round roster of activities,including the annual photography contest, in all five boroughs. As the photographic selections including inthe exhibition demonstrate, the reemergence each year of the flowers across the city provides a collectiveemotional renewal.The Parks Inspection Program’s trained inspectors conduct 5,000 inspections per year, reporting on parkelements such as flags, sidewalks, and signs, determining whether any are missing, damaged, faded, orworn. While on inspection patrol they have an opportunity to witness and record the best aspects of ourparks. Diverting their cameras from their appointed task, they have captured glimpses of natural beauty aswell as candid activities.The Arsenal Gallery is dedicated to examining themes of nature, urban space, wildlife, New York City parksand park history. It is located on the third floor of the Parks Department Headquarters, in Central Park, onFifth Avenue at 64th Street. Gallery hours are Monday – Friday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Admission is free. For moreinformation on the Arsenal Gallery, please call 212-360-8163.FOR AN OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD EXPERIENCE...The Greenbelt Nature Center invites you to take part in an event that is truly out of this world! From January16 through January 30, on Saturdays and Sundays from 1 p.m. – 4 p.m., view authentic NASA lunar rocksand meteorites up-close. There will be Lucite disks containing lunar and meteorite samples on display, and arange of activities including a demonstration of the impact of craters on the lunar service. A NASA-CertifiedLunar Rock and Meteorite Educator from the Greenbelt Environmental Education Department will be helpyou examine the specimens, answer questions, and refer you to other resources.Help us kick off the lunar fun at the Greenbelt Nature Center this Monday, January 17, Dr. Martin LutherKing, Jr. Day. Professor Irving Robbins, Director of the Astrophysical Observatory at the College of StatenIsland-CUNY, will present “Asteroid and Comet Lunar Impact Craters with Consequences for Planet Earth: Adiscussion of the nature of craters on the Moon and Earth.” Dr. Robbins’s talk will run from 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.From 2:00 - 3:00 p.m., Dr. Alan I. Benimoff, Ph.D., a faculty member at the College of Staten Island whodid his thesis on lunar rocks at Brooklyn College, will present “The Nature and Origin of the Moon.” Toregister for Monday’s talks, call (718) 351-3450 or e-mail naturecenter@sigreenbelt.org.-Jessica Kratz, Greenbelt Nature Center DirectorQUOTATION FOR THE DAY“An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.”Page 18 of 157