You'll be dancing with 'em too before the night is over, happy again...
[lyrics to "Downtown," by Tony Hatch, performed by Petula Clark]
Okay, I've never danced to a Bossa Nova rhythm, gentle or not, but I'm all about being downtown. I love the ambiance of it. The sensory impressions. When I'm walking along the 16th Street Mall (in Denver) ...
16th Street Mall (between Glenarm and Welton)
... I'm happy. Serene. Even with a gazillion people around me [When you've got worries, all the noise and the hurry seems to help, I know. Downtown].
It dawned on me awhile back that this same feeling must be what nature nuts (uh, sorry) what people who like to go hiking up the sides of mountains must feel when they're, you know, hiking up the sides of mountains.
Joyful.
Outside The Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA)
If they don't get this same sensation then I gotta wonder why they're out there. When I'm walking around without concrete beneath me and bricks and steel surrounding me ...
17th and Tremont
... (i.e., out in nature) I don't get any kind of feeling like that. I can appreciate the beauty of it, but it's pretty much like Clark Griswold at the Grand Canyon. A few nods of the head and time to get back in the car. It really just doesn't do anything for me. Sure, it's pretty but, you know, one tree looks an awful lot like another.
The Market on Larimer Square
I worked downtown for over two years and even at the end of that tenure I could still walk outside and feel the city around me and feel rejuvenated.
Trinity United Methodist Church - 18th and Broadway
Who knows, maybe I'm agoraphobic and I need enclosed space.
"Inside" the DCPA
I would tell Oliver Wendell Douglas (Green Acres, 'natch) to take a hike (pun and/or irony intended) [Dah-ling I love you but give me Park Avenue] or the Denver Pavilions.
Denver Pavilions - 16th Street Mall between Tremont and Welton
Besides, where else are you going to find a bear - I mean a really big blue bear?
Colorado Convention Center - 700 14th Street
Exactly.
Hey, the majority of these pictures (perhaps all of them) are courtesy of my beautiful wife, Shannon. Thanks, sweetie!!
1 comments:
That was such a fun day; Denver really is the coolest city - well, second coolest city:) But you are for sure *the* coolest husband! xoxo
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