(Photo by Rebecca Blackwell ©2003 Town Topics)

ON THE RISE: Eleven-year-old twins Austin and Alicia Scalia, of Montgomery, work together to construct a Lego tower during Princeton Public Library's Grow-a-Building event.

(Photo by Rebecca Blackwell © 2003 Town Topics)

MAKING AN IMPRESSION: Arts Council of Princeton summer camp teacher Meg Biondi helps 8-year-old Katya Barrett put the finishing touches on an impressionistic painting of the flowers outside the Arts Council last Wednesday. Katya, who lives on Long Island, is attending the art camp for her second year.

(Photo by Rebecca Blackwell ©2003 Town Topics)

UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL: Elizabeth Jacobs and Odin Adams-Tuck, second-grade campers at the Princeton Recreation Department summer day camp, get face to face with a turtle Thursday at Community Park South. Reptile expert Billy Silly the Lizard Guy introduced campers to a Sinaloan Milk Snake, a scorpion, frogs, and other reptiles.