My neighbors' house

Offcite.org is the blog of Cite Magazine, dedicated to Houston architecture. They do a regular feature where someone narrates an audio walking tour through a Houston neighborhood. And the most recent tour begins at...my next door neighbors' house. Literally. The giant pecan tree in the background of the top photo? That's in my back yard, and it's the reason we always evacuate for hurricanes (it could take out the whole house if it fell). The bench on the corner you see in the fourth picture? They used to have a concrete bench there, and Maia and her nanny would sit there in the afternoons and tell stories. And when someone stole the bench (huh?) Maia begged them to get another one.

The guy narrating the tour doesn't mention that the original builders of the house--my neighbor's grandfather--was a homebuilder who built a lot of the Woodland Heights bungalows in the 20s and 30s.