"New York is a granite beehive, where people jostle and whir like molecules in an overheated jar. Houston is six suburbs in search of a center." - Nigel Goslin

Reminiscences from Houston...1) hanging off your hotel balcony, whilst clasping a camera, can produce some very Jacques Tati-homage-worthy results...

...and 2) the combination of Hermès, strip-mall, and plastic banner proclaiming that said Hermès is "open during redevelopment" is enough to send you hurtling over the balcony in the first place...