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A fairly regular look into my life, my thoughts, my observations, my circumstances, my wishes, my dreams, my prayers, and the wonderful and good people in my life... and then the not so good and destructive people, elements, institutions, and entities in our own community, in society, and on our planet... My public policy observations and opinions can now be found on my other blog, Mountain Time Zone Perspective.
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V I S I T O R C O U N T
About Me
- "The Cowboy Professor" or "THE Big J !"
- Colorado Springs, Colorado
- I am a well-educated yet eternally underemployed reserved gentleman who has lived most of his life in the Rocky Mountain West and High Plains with a wide variety of interests - among them, spectator sports (MLB, NHL, College Football, MWC Hoops, NFL, CFL, & Horse Racing); public policy, 20th Century History, the outdoors, travel & sightseeing, and such sciences as meteorology/climatology, geology, ecology, astronomy, and theoretical/quantum physics; environmentalism, conservation, and alternative energies technologies; participatory sports (golf, boating, camping, fishing, walking); is open-minded, single, and with an outre sense of humor; is largely socially conservative but economically and politically progressive and socialist; and enjoys a wide range of music (classic rock, country, oldies, jazz, and new age; good food, beverages, and conversation about a wide variety of topics including the news interests of the day and history... I look forward to retiring someday perhaps to the SW Oregon Coast, the Southern Nevada Desert, somewhere in Arizona, the Washington coastal corridor, or the Northern and Eastern Montana Prairie (if I can live that long !).
Colorado Rockies 2010 Begins in...
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Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head - BJ Thomas and Burt Bacharach
(You Got To) Make Your Own Kind of Music
These Days - Glen Campbell
RUSH: Time Stand Still
For EveryMan - Jackson Browne
Wheel in the Sky
Followers of the Colorado Cowboy Professor Blog
"Rolling With The Flow" -- That's Me...
Here in the new hometown ....
Morganna, My Cyberpet Dog
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Phase of the Moon
TWC Colo Spgs Forecast
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Previous Posts
- ► 2008 (312)
Latest New Survey and Poll
Extreme Weather
Graphic of the Day
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Scoreboard
MLB Scores/Standings
CBS Sportsline Scoreboard
American History Quiz
This Day in History
Daily US Presidents History
War Between the States Daily History
United States of America Constitution
My Top 60 Movies (not in any particular order of preference)
- A Night in Casablanca
- Always
- American Beauty
- American Graffiti
- Animal House
- As Good As It Gets
- Billy Jack
- Birdman of Alcatraz
- Body Heat
- Born on the Fourth of July
- Bugsy
- Caddyshack
- Casablanca
- Cast Away
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- Cold Mountain
- Dances with Wolves
- Dead Poets Society
- Death of a Salesman
- Diner
- Dirty Harry
- Doctor Detroit
- Doctor Zhivago
- Fast Times at Ridgemont High
- Field of Dreams
- Flags of Our Fathers
- Gone With the Wind
- Good Will Hunting
- It Could Happen to You
- LA Confidential
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Mighty Joe Young (1949 film)
- Mr Hollands Opus
- My Cousin Vinny
- Office Space
- Pay It Forward
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Road to Perdition
- Rocky
- Sabrina (1995 film)
- Saving Private Ryan
- Silverado
- Spiderman
- Stand By Me
- Star Trek: First Contact
- Star Wars
- Starman
- The Big Carnival (Ace in the Hole)
- The Big Lebowski
- The Blues Brothers
- The Cider House Rules
- The Fisher King {MY ALLTIME FAVORITE)
- The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
- The Green Mile
- The Lost Weekend
- The Natural
- The Shawshank Redemption
- The Ten Commandments
- Unforgiven
- Young Frankenstein
LMW Professional Town Weather
CAW Collegetown Weather
VML Family Hometown Weather
MKW Family Hometown Weather
HBL Family Hometown Weather
KVS Family Hometown Weather
LAC Family Hometown Weather
What is Your Fortune Today......?
George Santayana Quote
Colorado Springs
At an elevation near 6,200 feet above sea level, Colorado Springs is located in relatively flat semi–arid country on the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains. Immediately to the west the mountains rise abruptly to heights ranging from 10,000 to 14,000 feet but generally averaging near 11,000 feet. To the east lie gently undulating prairie lands. The land slopes upward to the north, reaching an average height of about 8,000 feet in 20 miles at the top of Palmer Lake Divide and Monument Hill.
Colorado Springs is in the Arkansas River drainage basin. The principal tributary feeding the Arkansas from this area is Fountain Creek which rises in the high mountains west of the city and is fed by Monument Creek originating to the north in the Palmer Lake Divide area.
Other topographical features of the area, and particularly its wide range of elevations, help to give Colorado Springs the various and altogether delightful plains and mountain mixture of climate that has established the locality as a highly desirable place to live.
The higher elevations immediately to the west and north of the city produce significant differences in temperature and precipitation. Precipitation amounts at these higher elevations are approximately twice those at nearby lower elevations and the number of rainy days is almost triple.
In Colorado Springs itself, precipitation is relatively sparse. Over 80 percent of it falls between April 1 and September 30, mostly as heavy downpours accompanying summer thunderstorms.
Temperatures, in view of the station latitude and elevation, are mild. Uncomfortable extremes, in either summer or winter, are comparatively rare and of short duration. Relative humidity is normally low and wind movement moderately high. This is notably true of the west–to–east movement of the chinook winds, that cause rapid rises in winter temperatures and remind us that the Indian meaning of CHINOOK is SNOW EATER.
The growing season varies considerably in length but averages from the first week in May to the first week of October.
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About Cheyenne, Wyoming, and the High Plains
- FRONT RANGE URBAN CORRIDOR
- LARAMIE COUNTY, WY
- CHEYENNE, WY
- Wyoming Public Policy
- WYOMING - The Equality State: What America Once Was
- Wyoming Economic Development Information
- Wyoming Business Report
- Why Wyoming
- City Data about Cheyenne
- Guide to Cheyenne
- About Wyoming
- The Ecological Regions of North America
- Level III United States Ecoregions Map
- The GREAT PLAINS of America
- The Steppe Ecological Zone
- Great Plains Restoration Council
- The Ogallala Aquifer
- The Buffalo Commons Proposal
- Buffalo Commons Map
- The American Mountain West
- Wild Rockies BioRegion Websites
- The Nine Nations of North America
- Culture of the American West
- History of the American West
- Wyoming: General Information
- Wyoming: Additional Information
- Wyoming: Historical Information
- Wyoming: Historical Dates
The Frontier Counties of the High Plains
- Sheridan County, MT
- Daniels County, MT
- Roosevelt County, MT
- Richland County, MT
- McCone County, MT
- Dawson County, MT
- Wibaux County, MT
- Prairie County, MT
- Fallon County, MT
- Custer County, MT
- Powder River County, MT
- Carter County, MT
- Box Butte County, NE
- Sioux County, NE
- Custer County, SD
- Fall River County, SD
- Lawrence County, SD
- Perkins County, SD
- Butte County, SD
- Harding County, SD
- Converse County, WY
- Johnson County, WY
- Crook County, WY
- Weston County, WY
- Niobrara County, WY
- Platte County, WY