A few years ago I was out walking the dogs and discovered somebody had brought a big box of toy trains out to the street for garbage. I brought the dogs back home and came back in my car and scooped the trains. I didn’t know why, exactly. They’ve been living on the deck rails, waiting for me to figure out what to do with them.

Gradually the idea of creating a train wreck sculpture for the backyard took hold, and I’ve finally done it.

It’s hidden away way out back, near the flowering dogwood. You might visit our place a few times before noticing it. That’s what I wanted, something to discover one day.