I took a one-hour tour of the Point Downtown on Wednesday night and shot pictures with a used cellphone given to me by my daughter, since PUP has no camera gear. What I saw was a luminescent neighborhood just beginning to celebrate the holiday season.

Darryl B. Leeper plays tenor sax on Seventh Street.
The Highmark Christmas tree, on the corner of Penn Avenue and Stanwix Street.
Wreath at PPG Place.
Tower at PNC Plaza on Wood Street.
Forbes Avenue.
Holiday market at Market Square.
Dinner on Sixth Street.
Penn Avenue.

Steve Mellon

Steve is a photojournalist and writer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, but he is currently on strike and working as a Union Progress co-editor. Reach him at smellon@unionprogress.com.

Steve Mellon

Steve is a photojournalist and writer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, but he is currently on strike and working as a Union Progress co-editor. Reach him at smellon@unionprogress.com.