Once upon a time... quiet Saturday in Golden...

I think everyone at least once in their life feels dejavu... You know, the feeling like this already happened to you before and you relive it again. In fact, I feel it quite often when I visit nice small towns... The weather is the same, the views are the same, even the people look the same. I was looking at the pictures I've taken a year ago (in February 2020) and thought that I could go to Golden and take exactly the same pictures today. The weather would be the same, everything would be just the same... the colors, the feeling, the streets...

 

So I decided instead of taking the pictures again, just show them to you and pretend it happened just yesterday. Or you can pretend... Or... whatever, let's call it a time machine ;)

Last winter was really crazy (no complaints, though) - the weather was switching from freezing cold to almost Summer warm and back just in matters of days. In fact, this Winter is not any different. So, one Saturday we just decided to go to Golden, to walk along the streets and enjoy mild February weather ;)

Firstly, we were just unable to find a spot to park and circled around for a few minutes before finding a gap between cars somewhere up the hill. But it was even better as we had an opportunity to just walk slowly and enjoy looking around and finding something cool. 

We were stopping here and there, attracted by the old building, church, funny street lights that proudly showed it's rusty carcass, wall paintings...

 

Spent at least five minutes enjoying sparkling Indians bikes and admiring the idea of recycling the snowboards and skis by turning them into the bench.

 

Finally we were lured into Windy Saddle Café, where everyone can borrow a book to read. By the way, what do you think are chances to find a GULAG book on one shelf and Gorky Park on another? Two detective stories about events that happened in Soviet Union, published in 1986 and 1981... Both were sitting on the shelves in a nice and cozy café place thousands miles away from the location they were written about ;)

We ended up walking along the creek banks, enjoying looking around and found there are some people, who don't care much if the water is freezing cold as well as the air was not Summer hot ;)

Pictures were taken on February 01, 2020.