Tucson Mailbox Art

The theme here is sunflowers. There's also a sunflower sign by the front door (the photo is fuzzy because I set the camera to zoom in ...

Here's the scene: a white mailbox surrounded by flowers and cactus: The box has handpainted flowers: The west side is faded, proba...

This home, which I spotted on June 12th, has a fun entrance with something you don't see much of in Tucson anymore: a mailbox by the do...

My guess is that the critter on the scroll is a coyote — after looking at Comparing Wolves and Coyotes (from the California Wolf Center). ...

Though I usually don't show saguaro-shaped mailboxes , this one is worth an exception! Gregg Townsend spotted it along the route for Cy...

This green mailbox isn't especially interesting by itself, but it shows a way that some people avoid going outside (in this case, by th...

It's a poetic setting for this green mailbox with the house number cut into a large plate at the right side of its post. I took the p...

This rust-finished mailbox and post have the house address in twin-peaked flat metal on top: It's one of the boxes I found May 27, 20...

This white mailbox has a colorful black-outlined house number. I snapped the photos on May 27, 2013.

On my early-morning May 27th ride, I found this black mailbox, on a rickety post, painted with puffs (or are they flowers?).

A black mailbox with handpainted vine and blosssoms, snapped on May 27, 2013.

There's no missing the house number perched on top of this brown mailbox. The box is on a post made from twisted wood (with steel beh...

Somehow this black house-shaped mailbox with fancy scrollwork supports looked to me like something out of Edgar Allan Poe. I crept by on ...

Here's a yellow mailbox with handpainted flowers: It's the last box I found on my morning ride May 26th.

This gold-colored mailbox has wild handpainted flowers: It's the last of our boxes from Burns Street — this section of it, at least. ...

This bright mosaic-covered mailbox... ...is in front of a beautifully decorated home , which you can see by clicking there (to view it on...

This plain metal mailbox has a post surrounded by prickly pear made of brown metal. (Yes, it's at 4241 East Burns. The first 4 is missi...

Though I couldn't find a house number on this white mailbox, Google Maps Street View tells me that it's at 4231 E. Burns. Rocks an...

This white mailbox has handpainted green vine: I found it on May 26th.

This white mailbox looks similar to some others I've seen around town. Maybe they're made by a local artist? It has rectangles wi...

I found this blue mailbox with butterflies (one only partly finished?) on May 26th.

Here's a black mailbox with intricate white patterns... and a couple of bits of red: I snapped the photos on May 26, 2013.

When I rolled by this home on May 26, I couldn't find a house number. It was between 4214 and 4232 E. Oxford Drive, though, and Google M...

Here's one last box from this two-block stretch of Kings Road. It's white with bronze and copper trim, and it's on a post that...

Here's a blue-green mailbox with handpainted flowers and a fantastical critter wrapped around the box: I snapped the photos on May 26...

Can't miss this mailbox with its signs and bumper (well, box ) stickers! I found it on May 26th.

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 ...