Tucson Mailbox Art

Here's a mailbox with a mosaic post showing the sun, a saguaro, and a coyote (or wolf?). The two sides are different. You might h...

Another in our long-running series of mailboxes I photographed in 2013 but didn't post until now is this box with a cutout plant on a...

Someone went to a lot of work to make this elaborate flower “post” from nails and other cast-iron pieces! I rolled by and stopped to ga...

Here's a handsome mailbox embedded in a post that's faced with what look like thin sheets of stone. I discovered it on June 12,...

I'm not sure what to call the design on the flag and under the mailbox. The one underneath looks kind of like an apostrophe to me. Wha...

This home has a mailbox with (metal) plants between its two posts… … and the entrance to the home has a gate with the same design: I st...

When I rode my bicycle past the home on May 28, 2013, I talked with the homeowner. The metal between the posts is recycled, she said. I ...

I spotted this mailbox with a roadrunner on top May 28, 2013. I haven't published it until today.

A rusty plant climbs up the post and around the rust-finished mailbox in this photo from May 27, 2013. I haven't published it until to...

The flamingo by this mailbox post is a lot more tame than the lion a week ago . I found this a bit later the same day, June 3, 2013. I hav...

I found this flaming red, white and blue mailbox just after Memorial Day 2013: June 3rd. I haven't published the photo until today, Memo...

No one will dare steal mail from here. :) I found this mailbox with a lion next to it on June 3, 2013. I haven't published it until ...

Mounted on a tilted blue pole, one side of this mailbox has a scene that reminds me a bit of Taos Pueblo in New Mexico. The other side i...

Bet you can't miss the house number as you drive by this mailbox: (The other side has the typical small paste-on numbers.) I found it...

After groaning for a moment (I've seen enough smiley faces for a lifetime :), I stopped and snapped the photo on June 3, 2013. I haven...

No, I have no idea why. :) I spotted this smashed mailbox, mounted sideways (parallel to the street), on June 3, 2013. I haven't pu...

Here's another in the series of photos I took years ago but didn't publish. I rolled by this mailbox on a wheel June 3, 2013.

A sky blue mailbox with a two-color stripe: The photo is from June 3, 2013. I haven't published it until today.

Here's a mailbox that looks to me as if it's by the same artist who painted the box across the street (see Mailbox archive: 4917 Eas...

The mailbox door was open when I rolled by on June 3, 2013: Across the street is another mailbox in the same style. We'll see it next...

This mailbox sits on some kind of galvanized metal tube. The photo is from June 3, 2013, but I haven't published it until today.

I snapped this photo of a mailbox in a pot with artificial flowers on June 3, 2013, but I haven't published it until today.

Shining Light Baptist Church has this stuccoed post with a business-sized mailbox. I photographed it on June 3, 2013, but haven't pu...

Here's a nautical-looking yard as I found it on June 3, 2013: Since then, the big tubes have been removed. Here's a Google Maps S...

A lavender mailbox with big white flowers: I snapped the photos on June 3, 2013, but haven't published them until today.

This mailbox isn't special — lots of mailboxes are embedded in walls and posts — but the setting is. There's an arch shaped like a...

I kid you not. This photo is from a government-funded 1978 University of Texas research study, Crash Tests of Rural Mailbox Installations ....

Both sides of this handpainted mailbox are covered with desert scenes. Even the flag has a desert scene: I took the pictures on June 3, 2...

The art in front of this home is a real family affair. The owner told me that her son made the wrought iron. The flag looks to me like a ...

A vine and some bugs wrap around the house numbers and what must be the owner's name: I took these photos on June 3, 2013, but haven...

This mailbox has three desert bits cut out of its post: I haven't published the photo since I took it on June 1, 2013.

Here's the second of three mailboxes in the same part of its block of East 23rd. I've noticed that decorated mailboxes sometimes com...

Two sunbursts make this gold mailbox shine even more. I discovered it on June 1, 2013, but haven't published the photo until today. ...

The brown mailbox isn't exciting, but that post is different: I found this box on June 1, 2013, but haven't published the photo...

Here's a saffron-colored mailbox with a big flower on each side: I discovered this mailbox on May 30, 2013, but haven't published...