Posing for the crowd under the Sea Lion Sound at the St. Louis Zoo.

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First snow at the Missouri Botanical Gardens.

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Globe/T. Rob Brown   New York University student Zohaib Anwar still shows some white paint in his hair from a day of service with Rebuild Joplin as he reads the Quran during a prayer service at the temporary mosque for the Islamic Society of Joplin Friday afternoon, Jan. 25, 2013. Anwar is part of an interfaith service organization of NYU students, including Muslims and Jews, which helped Rebuild Joplin with the tornado rebuilding effort this week. The mosque's former location was burned down, suspected arson, in early August 2012.
Globe/T. Rob Brown   Imam Lahmuddin leads a prayer service at the temporary mosque for the Islamic Society of Joplin Friday afternoon, Jan. 25, 2013. This particular service included members of an interfaith service organization of NYU students, including Muslims and Jews, which helped Rebuild Joplin with the tornado rebuilding effort this week. The mosque's former location was burned down, suspected arson, in early August 2012.
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Saad Khan, a New York University student, participates in a prayer service at the temporary mosque for the Islamic Society of Joplin Friday afternoon, Jan. 25, 2013. Khan was part of an interfaith service organization of New York University students, including Muslims and Jews, which recently spent a week in Joplin and Rebuild Joplin to help with the tornado rebuilding effort. The mosque's former location was burned down, suspected arson, in early August 2012.
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Jobie Boucher, an apprentice brick layer, sets up a layer of scaffolding for his team of brick layers Friday afternoon, Jan. 25, 2013, as construction continues on the new Subway restaurant on Seventh Street, near Maiden Lane.
Globe/T. Rob Brown  An interfaith group of New York University students and some Rebuild Joplin members pose for a photo by Ben Harrison, right, of Lamar, a Rebuild Joplin site supervisor, Friday morning, Jan. 25, 2013, on the porch of a Rebuild Joplin home on 18th Street. The interfaith service organization of NYU students, including Muslims and Jews, helped with tornado rebuilding efforts this week.
Globe/T. Rob Brown   New York University students Sam Cohen, left, and Zohaib Anwar, help Rebuild Joplin Friday morning, Jan. 25, 2013. They are part of an interfaith service organization of NYU students, including Muslims and Jews, which helped with the tornado rebuilding effort this week.
First snow at the Missouri Botanical Gardens.

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First snow at the Missouri Botanical Gardens.

© Copyright Philip Leara - Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
First snow at the Missouri Botanical Gardens.

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