Houston Stories


What Could Be Better Than Lunch With Old Friends On A Sunny Spring Day ?

What Could Be Better Than Lunch With Old Friends On A Sunny Spring Day ? While we were in Houston we were able to have lunch with our good friends Betty and Richard at the Black Walnut in the Rice University area. It was nice to drive through this area with the stately old trees and homes. The Black Walnut is a very nice place to eat.....look at ...


Nickname Is Space City ..... and it Haley's town !

Nickname Is Space City Back some decades ago when the Johnson Space Center came to the area some folks in Houston adopted this nickname... We were visiting friends and family, then off down to Galveston for a party. These snapshots of interesting architectural details were taken from the moving Global Warmer..... While there we also had a ...


So, yes, I am still home...

Lauren and I haven't left yet, but I figured I would go ahead and get started. We decided about 3 weeks ago that we were going to buy some plane tickets to Ireland and just go from there. So, we booked some plane tickets to Dublin for a ridiculously low price and decided we would figure out the rest later. Last week, we sat down at a little tea sho...


Interior Designer in Houston Weds : Julie Meers becomes Julie Grove

Interior Designer in Houston Weds : Julie Meers weds, Matt, becomes Julie Grove One of the reasons we headed back down into the heat of Texas was for the wedding of sister Susan's daughter on November 1. Yes, there is still the possibility of hot weather even as late as end of October. It had cooled down some and was actually quite pleasant during ...