Art Deco

Today we walked along Collins Street on Miami Beach for a little self-guided art deco tour. Robin loves, loves, loves this stuff, and I now have decided that I, too, think that a vacation around these parts could be fun, too.

I really like the glass tile on the fronts of these steps:



Here's some fruit in a tree, with building:



A lovely modern house, with garden and flag:



Here's an interesting architectural detail:



One of the most beautiful parking garages ever, mostly because it's well decorated with plants:



Another fabulous building. I love the circular cutouts for the trees to grow through.



Oval windows and other fancy decor:



And a very ornate chair on a modern porch:



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Back in Houston, Robin finally took to me to Star Pizza, which I've been hearing about for years and years, and we got the Joe's pizza, which is the spinach and garlic flavor. I liked it.

And I think I figured out the secret of the fabulous whole wheat crust. I think it's biscuit dough. Biscuit dough is made with baking soda rather than yeast, so it's even easier to make than regular pizza dough. And using biscuit dough for pizza has been recommended to me by my brother, though my brother's fabulous biscuit dough recipe is so full of butter that I never let myself make it.

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The HOV lane out of Houston was less exciting because we weren't hoping to get off at any point. The drive home was just fine. We went to bed exhausted. The end!