Tucson Mailbox Art

I found this (mostly) green mailbox on a (partly) red fire hydrant July 4, 2013.

Offline, out of town, off my bicycle… I haven't posted any mailboxes for (exactly) four months now. I'll aim to put at least one onl...

I rolled by a simple entrance and white wooden mailbox at 324 N. Norris on June 30, 2013.

This artistic fence and "post" mailbox (on a post made from a tree branch) were spotted at 121 N. Norris on June 30, 2013.

This rust-finished mailbox with turquoise accents is at 1347 N. Plumer . Click there for a Google map. I found it on June 27, 2013.

From June 27, 2013: a simple design with a turquoise maildrop: For some reason, the address, 2320 E Adams , wouldn't appear in the Lo...

The owner left this black mailbox hanging out… on a unique right-angle post with numbers welded to the post: I took the photo on June 25,...

This black mailbox has a painted sculpture of a waving man chained to its post. I rode by on June 25, 2013.

There was no water in sight to grow a rust-finished mailbox with cattails around its post, as well as a cattail flag. I found it on June ...

This black mailbox has a bird on an angled post with the house number. I snapped the photo on June 25th.

I wondered if the owner ever put flowers in the flowerpot shards embedded around the black mailbox in this stucco and brick post. I pond...

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...