- Field book
- Volume 4
- Set
- 5 August 2026
- Place
- Houston, TX
- Sheet
- index of records
The run
Every block recorded so far, with the day and the weather it was recorded in
Six records. Each is a single block, walked in full on one day, with the conditions printed at the top because in this climate they change what a street is.
| Block | Quarter | Recorded | On foot |
|---|---|---|---|
| A metal shop and eleven bungalows A working fabrication shop with a roll up door twenty feet from a front porch, and the eleven houses that stayed anyway. | North side | 21 February 2026 | 0.6 miles, about 40 minutes |
| A six storey tower and its neighbours What happens on a corner when the paper that held it back runs out: six storeys, a parking podium, and six houses that now live in its shadow. | Inner west | 14 March 2026 | 0.8 miles, about 50 minutes |
| Open ditches and eleven driveways A block with no pavement, no kerb, eleven driveways and two feet of ditch on both sides, which is how a great deal of this city drains and walks. | Southwest | 18 April 2026 | 0.7 miles, about 45 minutes |
| An open air bar and a scrap yard An open sided icehouse under a live oak, sharing a fence with a metal recycling yard, and the four hours a day when both are busy at once. | East end | 23 May 2026 | 0.9 miles, about 55 minutes |
| A taqueria sharing a wall A taqueria and a metal fabricator in one building, with one wall between them, and the queue that forms outside both doors at noon. | Near northeast | 27 June 2026 | 0.5 miles, about 35 minutes |
| The block a freeway cut in half An elevated freeway crosses this block on twenty piers, and both halves have spent forty years working out what to do with the shade underneath. | Inner loop, north | 25 July 2026 | 1.1 miles, about 1 hour 5 |
Reading the ledger
The quarter column says roughly where in the city the block sits. It is deliberately rough: this is a field book about blocks, and naming a neighbourhood invites arguments about boundaries that have nothing to do with what is standing on the lot.
The date matters more than it would elsewhere. A block recorded in February and a block recorded in August are two different experiences of the same ground, and the record says which one you are reading.
The same six, laid out
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North side · 21 February 2026
A metal shop and eleven bungalows
A working fabrication shop with a roll up door twenty feet from a front porch, and the eleven houses that stayed anyway.
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Inner west · 14 March 2026
A six storey tower and its neighbours
What happens on a corner when the paper that held it back runs out: six storeys, a parking podium, and six houses that now live in its shadow.
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Southwest · 18 April 2026
Open ditches and eleven driveways
A block with no pavement, no kerb, eleven driveways and two feet of ditch on both sides, which is how a great deal of this city drains and walks.
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East end · 23 May 2026
An open air bar and a scrap yard
An open sided icehouse under a live oak, sharing a fence with a metal recycling yard, and the four hours a day when both are busy at once.
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Near northeast · 27 June 2026
A taqueria sharing a wall
A taqueria and a metal fabricator in one building, with one wall between them, and the queue that forms outside both doors at noon.
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Inner loop, north · 25 July 2026
The block a freeway cut in half
An elevated freeway crosses this block on twenty piers, and both halves have spent forty years working out what to do with the shade underneath.
What is not in here
No opening hours, no admission and no prices, because everything described is visible from a public pavement. Where a record mentions something behind a gate, it says so and keeps walking.
No block is here because somebody asked for it to be. The method page sets that out along with everything else this publication refuses to do.
Nominate a block
If you know one where two things sit side by side that have no business doing so, write to the desk. Half of this run started as somebody else's note.