234 East Limberlost Drive: Sun sets on another year of mailboxes

Just at sunset on December 11, 2021, I found this box after I left the Stone Curves mural repainting around the corner:

Next year, the 10th anniversary of this blog will fall on December 12, 2022. Stay tuned for another year of mailboxes!

3410 North Bentley Avenue: Last chance for mail to Santa!

David Aber spotted a cute photo titled in the December 14th Arizona Daily Star, by Kelly Presnell, of a mailbox in the Winterhaven Festival of Lights. It's the first photo in the article Photos: 2021 Winterhaven Festival of Lights. I drove over ASAP, during the day of December 18th, to take a picture of that mailbox:

Of course, the family also has a “real” mailbox. Although it likely doesn't have Christmas lights wrapped around it all year, I'm not sure if the rest of the decoration is only there at Christmas:

319 North Tucson Boulevard

The home actually has two mailboxes. This one is by the street. The other is on top of a high wall. (Many years ago, some people would put a second mailbox high in the air and label it “Air Mail” as a joke. But that one is a pink color with “319” on the side.)

2732 North Orchard Avenue: Box on a tree trunk

Got an axe? Who needs Home Depot?

I spotted this on November 6th.

4407 East Water Street: Bright box with cutouts

Thanks as always to David Aber for this photo. He sent it on August 29.

For some reason, Blogger Maps wouldn't show this address. Here it is on Bing Maps.

2530 North Goyette Avenue: Water and trees

Ddavid Aber sent this photo on August 29. Thank you, Dave.

For some reason, Blogger Maps wouldn't show this address. Here it is on Bing Maps. (Click there.)

3644 East Juarez Street: Chameleon bird

On March 11, 2013, I posted a photo of a (mostly) brown-and-beige bird on top of a mailbox. Fast-forward to October 5, 2021. David Aber sent me a photo of the same bird. The bird had been repainted blue:

Albuquerque mailbox for Veterans Day

I've taken three road trips since June. On my July 2021 trip, in Albuquerque, I spotted this flag-covered mailbox near the Rio Grande:

Can't (couldn't) touch this mailbox: 4218 East 2nd Street

David Sewell, who's moved from Arizona to Virginia, sent a mailbox photo that he took in Tucson on July 4, 2016. It's wrapped with what looks like rusty fence wires:

Google Maps Street View shows that the mailbox was still there in March, 2019. But, for some reason, Blogger Maps wouldn't show this location. Here's the home on Bing Maps.

Thank you, David!

Mailboxes in a painting

I've been traveling much of the past two months — which is one reason I haven't been posting mailboxes. I'm hoping that this can be the first of a long series of posts! It's from an art museum I visited along the way: “Mail Boxes,” dated 1935, by artist Kenneth Callahan, an American who lived 1905-1986: