Tucson Mailbox Art

Driving toward Gates Pass on August 8th, I rolled past a mailbox that looked custom-built. I found a parking place and walked downhill to...

As I've written recently, Glenn Street seems to have more than its share of creative mailboxes. Now that I'm (finally!) getting ou...

This faded white mailbox with desert scenes is in front of the Tucson Community Meditation Center : I drove mindfully by it on June 25th....

This plain black box sits in a rusted frame made of mesh, perched on a square post and a saguaro, with javelina above and below. It's...

Here's another mailbox that David Aber found in the corner of Tucson with streets named for stars and planets — and using calle and ave...

Like the previous mailbox , this one is in the part of Tucson, southeast of 22nd & Wilmot, with semicircular streets named for stars and...

David Aber sent this photo May 19th. He calls it (for obvious reasons) the Choo Choo Box: I'm not sure if the homeowners made this cl...

Here's the second of two mailboxes David Aber spotted along Sylvia Street on May 17th: He's dubbed it Hot Rod Box.

David Aber has turned into a mailbox hunter extraordinaire (though he's told me that he doesn't go hunting; he just spots the mail...

I've seen mailboxes mounted on wagon wheels before, but not like this interesting combination. I rolled by on June 5th.

What a riot of colored tile on the post of this mailbox! I'm not sure why I didn't snap a photo from the back side. While I wa...

For a sewing business named Hem & Her, this plain black mailbox perched on top of a big pair of scissors cuts just right. (Sorry. :) ...

This stack of mailboxes is on the west side of 6th Avenue across from the corner with 7th Street (across from Miller Surplus). I'm not...

There's something about Glenn Street that encourages lots of creative mailboxes. I keep seeing them as I drive by, but I don't alw...

This mailbox looks a bit royal to me in its colors of gold (the box) and blue (the post). The number, as well as a few flourishes, are alo...

This is the last of the four mailboxes David Aber sent on April 4th. He wrote “Someone did a nice job on the tiles.” That's for sure! Th...

David Aber calls this “Mountainbox.” The designs on top of the mailbox, and near the bottom of the post, are similar. It's rusty metal...

David Aber spotted this shiny black mailbox, covered with bright flowers and on a natural wood post, April 4th.

This “covered wagon” mailbox is one of the boxes David Aber emailed on April 1st.

Last time, I posted one of the photos David Aber emailed on April 4th. Then I noticed that he'd sent more photos on April 1st. (Your co...

David Aber sent this and several other mailbox photos on April 4th. He wrote: The design on the Airplane mailbox is based on a Curtiss P-4...

April 9th, along the Heart of Tucson Art spring open studios tour, I found this artistic mailbox near (where else?) an artist's home. ...

This plain white mailbox could use some zap, for sure… the (much) larget-than-life jar of Tabasco sauce is a great addition. This is the t...

After three and a half years of mailboxes, we're at the four hundredth: I reeled it in March 12th at 2841 North Tyndall Avenue. Bef...

I'm not sure exactly what's perched on the top back corner of this black mailbox. It looks like a bug, with bugged-out eyes, shield...

Here's a black box with handpainted flowers and orange sripes around the side of its door: David Aber was driving through the neighbo...

So many mailboxes include quail that I've thought about adding them to our boring mailboxes list . But, like a lot mailboxes with other...

Some mailboxes as clever as this barn-shaped box (red sides with white stripes over the door and a black shingled roof) are commercially-...

Here's a large metal mailbox, painted lavender, with flowers on top and around its brown post. I couldn't possibly miss it as I d...

Bursting out of the middle of a spectacular iron sunflower is this rust-finished mailbox… David Aber, who took the photo, calls it “Sunfl...

On top of curvy pipe sections is this rust-finished mailbox: David Aber (who also contributes to the Tucson Murals Project blog ) found i...

Here's another gorgeously-painted mailbox: white, covered with gardens full of clusters of flowers: I took the photo on January 31 —...

This gorgeous mailbox is covered with hand-painted scenes of quail in the desert... I waddled by (do quail waddle? :) on November 20th.

This white mailbox has hand-painted poppies: I rode by and stopped ( "I'm so sleepy, I can't ride anymore. Oh please, I have...

This white mailbox nas a red-and-blue design between the posts. Natural light replaces the white parts of this American flag. Ted Morri...