Tucson Mailbox Art

This sparkly post has “3725” (the house number) on one side and “T + J” (the owners’ initials?) on the other: I found this box on May 30,...

Bright flowers highlight this gray mailbox. The photos from May 20, 2013 haven't been published here until now.

A bird and musical notes grace this box. I took the photos on May 20, 2013 but haven't posted them until now.

This mailbox looks tiny next to those big plants. I took the photo on May 13, 2013, but haven't posted it until now.

Here's the second in a series of mailbox photos that I snapped but never published on this blog. (I'll post two of these each week...

This is the first of a series of mailboxes I photographed but never published on the blog. Back on December 8, 2012, I was out hunting mai...

David Aber found another mailbox with a tiki post on October 10, 2017 . Besides the post and the grass shack, he spotted the fun sign on...

Pieces of colored glass between the posts make this plain-vanilla mailbox much more fun. There's a light at the bottom left that pr...

David Aber sent photos of this beautiful box on November 5, 2019:

I don't see many mailbox flags that are a flag. David Aber found this one and emailed it November 5, 2019: Most people don't pai...

One side is at night; the others are during the day: Thanks, David Aber, for shooting and sending these on November 5th.

Notice the bird carrying a letter on the end of the box? (As always, you can click on the photo for a larger view.) This beauty is from ...

David Aber emailed this on November 5th. The other side is solid black, he says.

David Aber is at it again. How do you find these amazing mailboxes, Dave? He emailed the photo on November 5th.

Until recently, Blogger would charge me money if I put photos on this blog that were longer or wider than 800 pixels. That used to be pretty...

I rolled by on November 21st. (Sorry about that.) (Not. :)

Here are a few image searches for turkey mailbox : Duck Duck Go (a search engine that emphasizes privacy) Bing Google Happy Thanksgivin...

I'm not sure whether this mailbox was painted by one person or by a committee: flowers, leaves, a diamond pattern… and a flag with a p...

This mailbox isn't just mounted on the front wheel, fork and handlebars of a motorcycle… Take a closer look at the box itself (below)...

Although I found this mailbox with an eagle on the post June 21st, I saved it for Veterans Day.

This rusted mailbox has seen better days — a lot of them. :) It was along my mailbox-hunting route on June 21st:

David Aber calls this CelestialBox. The homeowner hand-painted it: He emailed the photos on September 17th. Thanks, as always, Dave!

We usually don't show mailboxes with saguaro-shaped posts , but this one has a saguaro made of horseshoes! The door to the home...

The blog will be back mid-October. See you then!

David Aber found this example of “cat-titude” and emailed it on August 5th. Although we usually don't show mailboxes that have a cove...

A few weeks ago, I posted a mailbox like this one — but more stylized. Another one, with the mailbox partly surrounded by rocks, is at 2...

We usually don't show mailboxes with big stuccoed posts because there are so many around town. But this mailbox — which is buried in a...

I've seen a few mailboxes around town with posts made of a cage full of rocks. This is one of them. I found it on June 21st. Here...

This hand-painted mailbox looked unfinished to me. A boy riding his bike told me that the box had been there since his family moved in — so...