Monday, October 31, 2022

Halloween Mailbooooxes

Although it's too late to decorate your mailbox this year (Halloween is today), there are lots of good ideas online. Here's an image search for halloween mailbox on DuckDuckGo (a private search engine that doesn't track what you search for):

    https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=halloween+mailbox&atb=v296-1&iax=images&ia=images

Have a boootiful day!

Monday, October 17, 2022

Flashback to this garden box: 103 South Calle de Jardin

One of the early posts on this blog, Tuesday, May 14, 2013, showed a mailbox that was part of a beautiful wall covered with a mural of flowers and vines. In June of this year (2022), I went back to take closeups of the mural. You can see them in today's post on The Tucson Murals Project blog, titled In 12 years, this garden mural has grown.

I also took closeups of the mailbox:

Monday, October 3, 2022

Fill up your tank at this mailbox: 4802 North Valley Park Avenue

This blog has been quiet while my life has been really busy. (Except for a simple post in May, the last mailbox was on February 21, 2022.) I've been waiting until I had enough photos to post every week. That hasn't happened yet. But I realized that I could post from time to time. So, back to the boxes — for now, slowly!

On April 27, 2022, as I drove over to photograph Joe Pagac's huge Zion City mural, I saw it was so large that I decided to park on the far side of Wetmore so I could fit all of it in my camera. Where Valley Park Avenue meets Wetmore was Sir Clifford's Kustoms, an auto body shop. And in front of the home business was:
(I didn't check the pump to see if it worked. :)

On top was a mailbox with a Mobil logo, like the one below on the pump:
Both sides had a small “signature” near the bottom of the pump:
So don't say that this blog has run out of gas! 😛