Lunch Time Sketches

I work in downtown Baltimore and like to sketch on my lunch hour.  This store front attracted my attention the other day.  It was such a statement about our changing world.  Originally it was a stationers' shop, then a bookstore, then a cyber cafe.  Now it is for lease or sale.  We don't write letters as we once did, we buy more books on e-readers, and most people have mobile devices and don't need to go to a cyber cafe.  Fortunately, the architecture survives to tell the story.

Here are some other sketches.  This is Old Saint Paul's Church on Charles Street.

And here are the spires of the Mount Vernon Place Methodist Church:

And a view of Mount Vernon townhouses for the hotel restaurant across the street:

Finally, a view of downtown skyscrapers looking uptown from the Inner Harbor: