Silverbells in the City Fireworks 2013

Silverbells in the City fireworks display from my front porch.

While I enjoy the holiday celebration, I prefer to stay inside where it is warm! I did manage to step outside to capture a few photos of the fireworks display.

The fireworks are set off from the pedestrian bridge behind the Capitol building.

Silverbells in the City 2013 fireworks.

Art for Charlie Auction 2013

Art for Charlie Auction at the Marriott in East Lansing. November 14, 2013.

 See more photos from the Art for Charlie Auction here.

All photos:Tammy Allen | for the Lansing State Journal.

Tammy Sue Allen Photography is a wedding and freelance event photographer based in Lansing, Michigan. Available for travel from Chicago to Detroit,  as well as all of Mid-Michigan including East Lansing, Okemos, Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids, and Muskegon. Other services include engagement sessions, family sessions, themed and styled photo sessions, trash the dress, event photography, and corporate event photography. Event photography starts at $250 for 2 hours of event coverage and includes an online photo gallery.

Vintage Woodland Engagement Session

Gen & Mike's vintage woodland engagement session at Grand Woods Park in Lansing, Michigan.

A vintage lace table cloth was strung between some trees to create a back drop for the photo session.

Handmade save the date sign.

Tammy Sue Allen Photography is a wedding and freelance event photographer based in Lansing, Michigan. Available for travel from Chicago to Detroit,  as well as all of Mid-Michigan including East Lansing, Okemos, Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids, and Muskegon. Other services include engagement sessions, family sessions, themed and styled photo sessions, trash the dress, event photography, and corporate event photography. Event photography starts at $250 for 2 hours of event coverage and includes an online photo gallery.

Lansing BWL REO Town Depot & Cogeneration Plant

REO Town Depot

"Constructed in 1902, this castle-like building with its square tower was the Lansing station for the Grand Trunk Western Railroad until 1971. For decades passengers streamed through its doors. Here servicemen left and returned from military duty. Children and adults alike associated this depot with the excitement of travel and vacations. This city's joys and sorrows were reflected in this rail station; greetings and good-byes were the most vital ingredients. But gradually rail travel ebbed. Renovated as a restaurant in 1972, the building's exterior remains unchanged. Gerald R. Ford from Michigan, the thirty-eighth president of the United States, dined here during a "whistle-stop" campaign tour on May 15, 1976." (source Michigan Historical Markers) 

"BWL’s first natural gas-fired power plant and first cogeneration plant, the REO Town plant generates up to 300,000 pounds of steam per hour and 100 megawatts of electricity. The plant is among the most clean and efficient in the U.S. The $182 million project includes a new headquarters and restored Grand Trunk Western Railroad depot. When fully operational in the fall, 180 BWL employees will work in the facility." (source BWL)

Tammy Sue Allen Photography is a wedding and freelance event photographer based in Lansing, Michigan. Available for travel from Chicago to Detroit,  as well as all of Mid-Michigan including East Lansing, Okemos, Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids, and Muskegon. Other services include engagement sessions, family sessions, themed and styled photo sessions, trash the dress, event photography, and corporate event photography. Event photography starts at $250 for 2 hours of event coverage and includes an online photo gallery.

Historical Society of Greater Lansing Auction 2013

"The John Dye Water Conditioning Plant is located on South Cedar Street, east of downtown Lansing. Named for a former BWL chemist, the plant has the capacity to condition and distribute 40 million gallons of water per day. The Dye Plant’s architecture reflects the art deco style prevalent when it was built in 1939 as a project of the Works Project Administration (WPA). In the plant’s lobby large murals painted by artists Frank Cassara and Charles Pollock depict the beneficial and destructive forces of water." - source Lansing State Journal.

The John Dye Water Conditioning Plant was host to the 2013 Historical Society of Greater Lansing's Silent Auction event. The funds raised through the silent auction will help HSGL continue its efforts to build a collection of historical Lansing artifacts as we work to found a future Lansing area history museum.

Guests of the auction event enjoyed bidding on a variety of items donated to help raise money for the HSGL.

Carved sculpture on the front of the John Dye Water Conditioning Plant stands 30 feet tall.

Fountain sculpture at the entrance to the plant.

(left) HSGL President Valerie Marvin leads a tour of the John Dye Water Conditioning Plant.

Control panel handles were replicas of Oldsmobile car handles of the 1930's.

Tammy Sue Allen Photography is a wedding and freelance event photographer based in Lansing, Michigan. Available for travel from Chicago to Detroit,  as well as all of Mid-Michigan including East Lansing, Okemos, Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids, and Muskegon. Other services include engagement sessions, family sessions, themed and styled photo sessions, trash the dress, event photography, and corporate event photography. Event photography starts at $250 for 2 hours of event coverage and includes an online photo gallery.

Personalize Your Wedding Day Details

Show off your inner super hero.

Monogram socks.

Twine & baby's breath.

Wood cuts as centerpieces.

Wood picks cake topper.

Personalized sunglasses.

Toms

Tammy Sue Allen Photography is a wedding and freelance event photographer based in Lansing, Michigan. Available for travel from Chicago to Detroit,  as well as all of Mid-Michigan including East Lansing, Okemos, Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids, and Muskegon. Other services include engagement sessions, family sessions, themed and styled photo sessions, trash the dress, event photography, and corporate event photography. Event photography starts at $250 for 2 hours of event coverage and includes an online photo gallery.