If you peer in to a small hidden window on the News & Observer building on Salisbury Street, you can see giant spindles of paper before being printed and cut.

One of my favorite spots to view the city skyline: the intersection of Davie and McDowell Streets.

The spot on the corner of Person and Edenton Streets was once home to Biscuit Station, a mom and pop greasy spoon restaurant that had been around for about 20 years. It closed last October, and the former service station has sat vacant since.

A tiny sign in the window says Coming Soon: Ruben’s Downtown. Despite occupying a rather quiet area despite the high traffic of Edenton Street, a lunch spot has the potential to do well, with hundreds of state employees within a few mile radius.

Downtown Raleigh, almost a year ago, from a parking deck on McDowell Street. The weather then was almost as nice as what we are having today!

The early commute down Hillsborough Street can be a bumpy ride.

One of Raleigh’s most unique high-rise structures is obscured or otherwise not visible in the photo above. Do you know which one?

On the eve of the shortest day of the year, a waxing crescent moon hovers near the center of a slightly symmetrical urban landscape downtown.

The cornice of Raleigh’s first skyscraper (the Briggs Building) stands in the shadow of the newest skyscraper, RBC Plaza.

On this quiet and warm Saturday afternoon, the only sound in City Cemetery was the rustling of leaves on ground moving with the wind.

Downtown Raleigh looking east as small, dark clouds foreshadow a wet evening.