Date men and women from United States / Colorado / Glenwood Springs, 41 year old

Date someone special from Glenwood Springs, United States. In no particular order:
Lets cut to a quick chase and see if you're in it. I don't get the online protocol, is it send a wink, get one back then email? Please have an image or be kind enough to send one. I get it. I live in a rural area and you might not want everyone to know your personal business, but frankly if they are searching your "match" account and aren't single ... shame on them. Yes I also get how it sort of feels like we've got the "SCARLET letter" for being single over the age of 30. I'm ok with that as well; I'd rather be single and happy then the infamous with someone and unhappy, much less teach a family of kids that you should put up with bad things/unhappy/etc. because of what ever load of garbage you sell your self.
If you're going to email me, and hopefully you do, drop me a little more then... Hi or Hey and hit send, give us something to really start with, work with me, it's a tag team effort to start a friendship/relationship and more so to continue one. If all you have is hey, please feel free to bring it (your hay) over and we'll go feed the horses next door then we can sit down for a beverage on your way through. I'm a litlte deeper then hey. That said I sure wouldn't mind expaning my circle of friends and hay feeding socialites if thats your thought process too.
I'm a real person (LOL) the photos of me aren't me half naked. I like to leave a little to your imagination. Any images are really me, not 30 years ago or any of that nonsense.
Hoping to find a woman that can engage me (no pun) on many levels mentally/verbally emotionally in the places we'll be found.
If you've got kids, it's not a deal breaker, I'm a dad to 2 boys, but I'm a father to none. Surely this can be taken many ways and will confuse you but if you have time and interest it makes great conversation. A family of my own DNA might be an option or no kids at all too. Life has a way of working out all the details with that classic hindsight is 20/20 effect.
I'm not looking for a princess nor am I against finding one, nor a queen, not a queen B (you know the kind), maybe a queen Bee if she's was truely the center of my life and I'd do anything for her... but not so likely to share her with the colony. If you bring your glass slipper to leave at the door, keep an eye on the pumpkin and mice at the driveway and the time of day, lastly be aware as the frog you kiss is the frog you get. Nothing likely to go poof and make me into someone i'm not (unless you bring the lottery ticket- in which case please keep it, I'll make my own luck).
Trying to figure out this on-line dating thing. Someone else explained it is A LOT like a cyber bar. I'm not interested in hanging out in a bar and bringing home bar flies. But the analogy makes some sense. Trying to keep expectations in check with reality. It's amazing/disturbing the things i've encountered so far along with learning what a "cyber sock puppet" means. So I'm on a new track once we get past you and I aren't psycho craigslist killers, i'm thinking meeting in person settles things pretty quickly. Actions matching the persona's we put on the AIRE of being while in cyberspace.
I'm a hard working mid-western sort if you will. Not a ski bum, I have some "old school" up bringing, but am a little more liberal then you might think. I guess free thinking and open to discussion might be a safe way to coin it. I'm self employed not to be mistaken for the current ecconomy is terrible and I'm broke and trying to sound better than unemployed. I have been doing what I do on my own for 2 decades. I'm pretty comfortable in where I am at in life, my surroundings my career, except for that finding the right companion part.