Day 242/365

     Tonight I covered "Holidays in the Heart of the City," a Christmas festival in Saginaw. It started with the lighting ceremony of all the Christmas lights in downtown and Old Town Saginaw, and ended with a fireworks display off of Ojibway Island. In between there were living nativity scenes, gingerbread house-decorating competitions, live reindeer, Santa and Mrs. Claus walking around, free tours of the zoo, and trolley and horse-drawn carriage rides. Guess which part I liked best. 

Day 111/365

     Tonight's belated post is courtesy of the Bay City Fireworks Festival's grand finale. It was absolutely amazing. I just got home and I most definitely smell like firework shells. If you'd like to see a few more photos from tonight's show, you can see them on my MLive.com profile page here. 

Day 109/365

     Tonight I covered the people starting to gather for the annual Bay City Fireworks Festival up here in  Bay City, Michigan. This photo is from Wenonah Park, a really nice park along the Saginaw River. I'm gross and dead-tired from the heat and humidity, so I'm getting ready to leave the newsroom and go straight home to shower, eat, and sleep. Good night!

Day 108/365

     I was on assignment to cover the fireworks show tonight, and got a prime spot off of a bridge right down the street from the main newsroom I usually work from in Saginaw. It was a great show, from what I got to see of it. Between the other photo intern that got assigned to tonight's Saginaw show and myself, I was designated the task of getting back to the office to submit fireworks photos for tomorrow's print edition by 10:45 tonight, (fifteen minutes after the show started). I got to see most of the rest of the show from the office, and it seemed pretty spectacular. Happy Fourth of July!