I spend most of my work week in a windowless office that’s anything less than inspiring. As drab as the space is, it’s located on a large industrial lot turned campus filled with art spaces and studios and heavy machinery schools.  At it’s entrance there use to be a large steel spider sculpture that Sadie adored that mysteriously disappeared one day.  On a lunchtime walk one day I found the beloved spider (sans legs) behind a building so on the first sunny day that came, which also happened to be the first day of Spring, I promised Sadie that we would go say hi.  While she wasn’t that happy about the state of her now 8 legless friend there was plenty of other things to keep a three year old happy.

Because this is a campus where people both learn some trades and create some art, there is quite a juxtaposition of things scattered throughout the lot.  Since no one was looking, I let Sadie treat an abandoned train as a jungle gym.  It was quite a treat since up to this point she’s only either ridden on them or scene them from a distance zipping along the tracks.  Few things make this kid happier than seeing old favourites in a new way.

Further down the tracks we found some steampunk inspired trolleys.  My friend Saskia recently told me that according to IBM, the next big fashion trend will be steampunk so we are ahead of the trends here.  Sadie asked me what they were to which I couldn’t reply but they look neat don’t they?