Why Colorado Is The Best Place To Live

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133. Colorado provided the inspiration for another, perhaps more well-known, song:

“Purple mountains majesties” refers to Colorado's Rocky Mountains. Katharine Lee Bates wrote America The Beautiful when she picnicked at the top of Colorado's Pikes Peak in 1893.

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134. The state song is "Where the Columbines Grow." Never heard it, but here are the lyrics:

[quote][i]Where the Columbines Grow[/i]
by A.J. Fynn, 1915
Where the snowy peaks gleam in the moonlight,
Above the dark forests of pine,
And the wild foaming waters dash onward,
Toward lands where the tropic stars shine;
Where the scream of the bold mountain eagle
Responds to the notes of the dove
Is the purple robed West, the land that is best,
The pioneer land that we love.
Tis the land where the columbines grow,
Overlooking the plains far below,
While the cool summer breeze in the evergreen trees
Softly sings where the columbines grow.
The bison is gone from the upland,
The deer from the canyon has fled,
The home of the wolf is deserted,
The antelope moans for his dead,
The war whoop re-echoes no longer,
The Indian's only a name,
And the nymphs of the grove in their loneliness rove,
But the columbine blooms just the same.
Tis the land where the columbines grow,
Overlooking the plains far below,
While the cool summer breeze in the evergreen trees
Softly sings where the columbines grow.
Let the violet brighten the brook side,
In sunlight of earlier spring,
Let the fair clover bedeck the green meadow,
In days when the orioles sing,
Let the golden rod herald the autumn,
But, under the midsummer sky,
In its fair Western home, may the columbine bloom
Till our great mountain rivers run dry.
Tis the land where the columbines grow,
Overlooking the plains far below,
While the cool summer breeze in the evergreen trees
Softly sings where the columbines grow.[/quote]

Edited May 27, 2008 by fides quarens intellectum

[fides quarens intellectum]

135. While we are at it, the state flower is the - you guessed it - Rocky Mountain Columbine, both white and purple varieties.

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136. State tree: Colorado Blue Spruce

137. State grass: Blue Gamma

138. State animal: Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep

139. State bird: Lark Bunting

140. State fish: Greenback Cutthroat Trout

141. State insect: Colorado Hairstreak Butterfly (if you're going to pick an insect, might as well be a pretty one)

142. State soil: Seitz

143. State rock: Yule Marble

144. State mineral: Rhodochrosite

145. State gemstone: Aquamarine

146. State colors: Blue and White

147. State dance: Square Dance

148. State fossil: Stegosaurus. Yep. Colorado has a state fossil!

[fides quarens intellectum]

149. The mountains looked really cool this morning - there were low clouds, and before the sun went up over them, it was shining on the foothills beneath the clouds.

[fides quarens intellectum]

150. Today's high was 63 degrees. No more muggy May!

[knightec]

I want to build a cabin up in the mountains one day. Wake up evey morning to a beautiful view and clean air.

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151.

[quote name='knightec' post='1545446' date='May 27 2008, 07:19 PM']I want to build a cabin up in the mountains one day. Wake up evey morning to a beautiful view and clean air.[/quote]


:inhale: aahhhhhhhhhhh.

[The Bus Station]

[quote name='knightec' post='1545446' date='May 27 2008, 07:19 PM']I want to build a cabin up in the mountains one day. Wake up evey morning to a beautiful view and clean air.[/quote]

Amen, bro.

[The Bus Station]

Oh, btw...

[url="http://finance.yahoo.com/real-estate/article/105075/Charlotte-Named-Best-Place-to-Live"]Charlotte, NC Named Best Place to Live in U.S.[/url]

[fides quarens intellectum]

[quote name='The Bus Station' post='1545558' date='May 27 2008, 08:01 PM']Oh, btw...

[url="http://finance.yahoo.com/real-estate/article/105075/Charlotte-Named-Best-Place-to-Live"]Charlotte, NC Named Best Place to Live in U.S.[/url]

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152. In an effort to avoid mass waves of immigration to this fine state, Colorado planners pay off the creators of such national lists.

[i just totally made that up]

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153. They still have seven-digit dialing here.

[Deus te Amat]

154. One of my seminarian friends is there for Totus Tuus.

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155.

[quote name='Autumn Dusk' post='1545570' date='May 27 2008, 08:13 PM']1. Charlotte, N.C.

2. San Antonio, Texas

4. Greenville, S.C.

5. Tulsa, Okla.

7. Asheville, N.C.

8. Albuquerque, N.M.

9. Huntsville, Ala.

These towns are all in danger of running out of drinkable water in the next ten years.[/quote]

[Lil Red]

+J.M.J.+
two of my friends went there for Theology of the Body training at St. Malo.