Susy & Sandy Stephens
This photo was special first because Sandy and I were sharing the Iowa night sky together just as we had many years earlier as kids growing up on the farm.It is also special because it was on a previously poor piece of land my parents bought years ago that was so poor it was named The Goldmine because the top soil was gone and the gold clay was showing. They carefullly coaxed back the rich black topsoil with sound conservation practices to make it a very productive piece of land, as evidenced by the stand of corn in the foreground.