Quiet life in Morrison

Denver on Saturday is noisy, busy and full of running people. And wouldn't it be great to escape all this buzz and enjoy some other place, preferably nice and quiet, easy and cozy, uncrowded and ... I guess you can easily find ten more words to describe Morrison, a small town in a foothill area.

 

The best way of starting something new is stopping first. For example, to stop and have some ice cream. The small cup of strong espresso and Sleepless in Seattle (nice name for an ice cream, isn't it?) is absolutely what we needed this hot August Saturday a couple years ago. And... maybe... a nice view to please our sore eyes while we were having such an sweet treat ;)

Morrison Street is so slow and quiet (especially compared to Denver's 16th Mall Street) but we were looking for an even quieter place to explore, so we crossed the creek and walked up the road to see the real Morrison, which couldn't be seen from the car window.

That was so nice to walk there - you can see cool pink and white houses, built somewhere in the 50s. We found a great looking mansion turned to be a school (and now it turned into the house and someone is leaving here) and nice views everywhere...

I love this yellow sign... Not sure if it is relevant in August... But it can be really important in the Winter time. Especially with the image of an athlete to show how you will fly on the icy surface :) really thoughtful, huh? And there were a bunch of those around the Morrison. Also we found tons of flowers, houses hidden between trees and grass, ... That was really nice and we enjoyed it.

We wandered around, found a nice mossy bridge across the creek and a cool house down the bank...

Finally we circled back, passed by a pink pig,  stopped to admire a bathtub converted into a flowerbed and understood that we need to return back to Denver...

Pictures were taken on August 18, 2018.