Working from the top down:
HLJ - oops, done it before and I'll probably do it again. Chick in the UK isn't female-specific (in the same way Guys isn't male-specific here) I must try to remember when I post here!
Bluecuracao - do you live and work city centre? It looks like a lovely cosmopolitan walk - wonderfully tree-lined!
Clod - there is so much SKY in your part of the world. And it looks so hot. It's far greener than I would expect given the above, and really quite attractive. I have a friend with family in Houston, Texas, but her photos are in houses and shopping malls. And I love Joe R Lansdale's books. But I'm pleased to see real life in a different part of a vast state
UT - one thing people tell me when I admit I live to travel coast to coast in the US is that I'd be on highways all the time and after a while they won't even have the tourist benefit of looking foreign. Much as I really appreciate your posting I get a flavour of what they mean. It's the same in the UK - if you are travelling between cities I mean, not between towns like CF or urban travel like me - all you get is ROAD. But hey - I've devoured your garden mentally...
Cyclefrance - cheers for the pic babba. You realise I'm not a coprophiliac, right? I just love the idea that the OS puts such mundane details in. I cheered (to myself) when you photographed it though... (ellipsis specially for you)