Tucson Mailbox Art

We're in the middle of a bunch of boxes on a short stretch of Kings Road. (I've wondered why some streets have so many artistic mail...

Click on the photo if you'd like a larger view of the handpainted house number tiles on this double-decker mailbox with a fancy post. E...

I spotted this (hard-to-miss!) blue mailbox with handpainted flowers on May 26th.

This large mailbox has some rust here and there... but, then again, not many people need to water their mailboxes! The box is also mounted ...

We've switched from mailboxes along Water Street into the Poets’ Square neighborhood. (It's also sometimes called Poets’ Corner, bu...

In the middle of the Poets’ Square neighborhood is a charming box with a child's touch: I found it on May 27th.

If you came to the blog today looking for a heart-shaped (Valentine's) mailbox, sorry. The best I can do (this year, at least!) is a p...

The home at 2702 E. Edison (which, for some reason, wouldn't show up in the “Location” box at the end of this entry) has both a weather...

In the past couple of weeks, we've been looking at mailboxes along Water Street. The first was in the 800 block, just east of 1st Avenue...

Last time , I posted a fish mailbox from Water Street. Here's another — a white box with fish on both sides: More mailboxes from May ...

This handpainted mailbox is covered with tropical fish: It's signed SBaker '95 .

I found a lot of mailboxes on my May 20th ride along Water Street. This one, mounted on posts like you might find on a pier — and the next ...

You aren't gonna break in to this all-steel mailbox. Found on May 20th.

On May 20, 2013, I rode past this gray mailbox inside a shiny post covered with tile, mirrors and crystals.

Here's a green mailbox with tile numbers on the post and a critter flag. I came by it on May 20th.

A handsome mailbox with soft mountaintops under a warm desert sky: I snapped the photos on May 20th.

Here's a black box with the address, on top, in a mountain-shaped piece of rust-finished metal. I rolled by it on May 20th.

This black mailbox, mounted on an iron circle with a disc in the middle, has an interesting shadow, too: I found it on May 20th.

These tidy-looking stuccoed mailbox and separate address post have tile numbers and artwork around them. They were along the route of my ...

On the west side of busy North Stone Avenue is a mailbox that's probably caught your eye as you rode by. It's a dark brown metal co...

Matching critters, top and bottom, on this black mailbox. Fontana had lots of good box-hunting on May 20, 2013!

This black mailbox has a black cat between its posts. I snapped the photo on May 20, 2013.

If you've been following the last few entries, you know that I was riding along North Fontana Ave. on May 20 of last year. And if you...

On May 20th, I just happened to be riding far enough on Fontana Avenue that I spotted two similar mailboxes eight blocks away from each oth...

This plain white box has its house number and a saguaro between the posts: I found it (and the box at 3307 North Fontana; see tomorrow...

Let's start 2014 with a creative white mailbox that has the address — 203 E. Linden — in curved dashed letters on both sides: I snapp...

We started 2013 with a koala bear mailbox, at 3202 East 28th Street , complete with branches and leaves. When I rolled by last Friday, the ...

I rolled by this sunny spring scene on May 14th: a handpainted white box, covered by — and surrounded by — flowers.

In case Christmas Day in Tucson doesn't turn out to be bright and sunny, the photo in today's Tucson Murals Project post, Maybe a mu...

Is it the World's Biggest Mailbox? Well, it doesn't actually hold mail, so… maybe not: It's just east of the Lowe's stor...

This black mailbox has stenciled flowers and numbers: I found it on May 14th.

On May 14th, I rolled by this white mailbox with hand-painted rectangular pictures and decoration.

Okay, so this photo isn't really a mailbox. The mailbox is behind it - a stock U.S. Postal Service multi-unit box. But I thought the ...

Here's a black box with unique scrollwork and a ball on top of the post. I snapped it on May 13th.

I'm on my latest trip to New Mexico (which is part of why I haven't been posting to this blog… the other is that I've been reall...

Why does this red-and-white mailbox have a post that's around ten feet high? The top reminds me of a place to hang flags or pennants. (...

I'm back from a trip out of town (without my mailbox photos to post). But now the boxes are back! On January 2, I posted a box that ro...

Instead of putting your mailbox outside the wall around the front of your home, why not put it in the wall — so you don't have to go ar...

As I hinted in the previous entry (you can click there to see it), I've been very busy. So busy, in fact, that I didn't check to s...

The Boxes Are Back after a break for (me) moving to a new home. This box is a great way to start (again): It's white with green and b...