Between Des Moines and Cedar Rapids and likely most other cities in Iowa are farms, featuring corn and other crops, a barn, silo, mechanical dryer and other out buildings.
The buildings are always on one of the property's hills, surrounded by perfect rows of crop.
Between the hills are dry gullies, small creeks, even rivers.
On farm after farm, nothing is out of place with everything tucked into one of the buildings. We've driven hundreds of miles across Iowa and seen no junk in any yard.
Affluent farmers have more equipment, more trucks, not necessarily a fancier house, with the main house treated like a barn for humans, large, but not ostentatious, but with no loose boards.
Older Iowans, both men and women, seem tall, straight, in shape. It's not hard to imagine high school basketball teams of the 50's and 60's fielding teams in this b-ball hotbed.
In contrast, the younger generation of Iowans, particularly those walking the malls, seem overweight, scrufty, even sickly.
Perhaps hard work contributes to health.
This would be God's country, if there was a God.
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