Tucson Mailbox Art

As I was driving to a friend's home on April 26th, I spotted a woman painting a mailbox. I stopped immediately, of course. :) She was a...

There are some kinds of mailboxes we don't show . Commercially-made mass-produced plastic covers is one thing that disqualifies a mailbo...

David Aber's March 7th email message was titled “Robbie the Robot.” It started with three photos: Next, he wrote: that the sculpture i...

Nice, isn't it? David Aber found this mailbox on or before February 21st, when he emailed me the photos.

Another great mailbox from David Aber: a covered wagon on a pedestal made of horseshoes. He took the photo on or before February 21st. ...

Last week's entry showed a mailbox on a tree trunk. Here's another house — this one on a much different pedestal

The homeowner made this obviously-handcrafted mailbox. That's an enlarged view of the house. David Aber took the photo on or befo...

This mailbox has a gorgeous mosaic pedestal covered with dragonflies. Above is an enlarged view of the top side in the first photo. ...

David Aber says that the bird on the box is “probably a Northern Cardinal that has faded over time. It still has the black mask that disti...

This is the third of three mailboxes in this corner of Beverly near Tucson Boulevard. Last week's entry , the second of three, showed ...

Here's the second of three mailboxes in this corner of a block near Tucson Boulevard. Last week's entry showed a mailbox across th...

Neither the house nor the mailbox seemed to have the house number. It's the house across the street from 2431. Google Maps says the nu...

A handsome but mostly standard-looking mailbox, right? Well, here's the other side: The flag covers the “8” in the house number. So ...

On February 13th, David Aber sent this (almost standard-looking!) mailbox. What makes it unique is a chimney of what looks like real pebble...

Here's a weathered mailbox with red chiles hanging between its two posts. (I grew up in New Mexico, so: Yum!) I found it on February...

Just by chance, the previous mailbox — which I found on October 22nd (2017) — had rabbits on top and bottom. This one is topped with bighor...

Rabbits, rabbits, rabbits… OK: I'll resist saying — with my punny (or worse) humor — that I “hopped by” on October 22, 2017. (Wh...

A mailbox painted in a petroglyph style: I rocked by (sorry :) on October 22, 2017.

October 21, 2017. Someone loves cats.

Although these probably aren't the most beautiful mailboxes on Flower Street, they do have a nice floral-type design on the post… ...

David Aber insists that he doesn't go “fishing for” creative mailboxes and only takes photos when he happens to spot one. Well, Dave...

Here's our last mailbox for 2017. David Aber found it on April 13th and wrote: “I seem to have a talent for finding mailboxes that look ...

It seems to me that artistic mailboxes come in groups. Some blocks have several; the next blocks might have none. On September 14th, David...

It's hard for me to believe that I've been sharing photos of mailboxes for five years — since December, 2012 . The five hundredth ma...

On October 8th, David Aber roared past this box on top of a V8 engine in front of Sports & Imports Auto Repair. “For obvious reasons,” ...