2650 North Orchard Avenue

This black mailbox is on a pint-sized post.

I (almost) overlooked it on July 4, 2013.

Albuquerque balloons

It's balloon fiesta week in Albuquerque. Though this is the Tucson Mailbox Art blog, let's jump to New Mexico for a gray mailbox with hot-air balloons:

I took the photo October 29, 2013.

2731 North Orchard Avenue

I found this (mostly) green mailbox on a (partly) red fire hydrant July 4, 2013.

2033 East 9th Street

Offline, out of town, off my bicycle… I haven't posted any mailboxes for (exactly) four months now. I'll aim to put at least one online each week for the rest of the year, and more in the new year. Let's get back to the boxes!

Though this terracotta mailbox isn't special by itself, it fits with the artistic front of its home. The owner told me that he wanted the back of the box to protrude from the other side of the wall so he wouldn't need to open the gate to get the mail. But the builder built the wall first.

I was there on June 30, 2013.

324 North Norris Avenue

I rolled by a simple entrance and white wooden mailbox at 324 N. Norris on June 30, 2013.

121 North Norris Avenue

This artistic fence and "post" mailbox (on a post made from a tree branch) were spotted at 121 N. Norris on June 30, 2013.

1347 North Plumer Avenue

This rust-finished mailbox with turquoise accents is at 1347 N. Plumer. Click there for a Google map.

I found it on June 27, 2013.

2320 East Adams Street

From June 27, 2013: a simple design with a turquoise maildrop:

For some reason, the address, 2320 E Adams, wouldn't appear in the Location box. Click there for a Google map.

3342 East Seneca Street

The owner left this black mailbox hanging out… on a unique right-angle post with numbers welded to the post:

I took the photo on June 25, 2013.

2618 East Seneca Street

This black mailbox has a painted sculpture of a waving man chained to its post.

I rode by on June 25, 2013.

1914 North Tucker Drive

There was no water in sight to grow a rust-finished mailbox with cattails around its post, as well as a cattail flag.

I found it on June 25th.

2726 East Waverly Street

This black mailbox has a bird on an angled post with the house number.

I snapped the photo on June 25th.

4307 East Bellevue Street

I wondered if the owner ever put flowers in the flowerpot shards embedded around the black mailbox in this stucco and brick post.

I pondered that back on June 13, 2013.

2801 East Helen Street

The theme here is sunflowers. There's also a sunflower sign by the front door (the photo is fuzzy because I set the camera to zoom in while I was standing on the street):

I snapped the photos on June 12th.

2802 East Drachman Street

Here's the scene: a white mailbox surrounded by flowers and cactus:

The box has handpainted flowers:

The west side is faded, probably by strong sun:

I stopped by on June 12th.

2926 East Glenn Street

This home, which I spotted on June 12th, has a fun entrance with something you don't see much of in Tucson anymore: a mailbox by the door (rather than at the curb).

2619 North Tucson Boulevard

My guess is that the critter on the scroll is a coyote — after looking at Comparing Wolves and Coyotes (from the California Wolf Center). Whatever it is, it sets off the galvanized mailbox.

The photo is from May 27th, 2013.

1721 South 4th Avenue

Though I usually don't show saguaro-shaped mailboxes, this one is worth an exception! Gregg Townsend spotted it along the route for Cyclovia on April 6th.

The “arms” are covered with... spark plugs. A search with Bing tells that, naturally enough, you'd take your vehicle here for service. The business is Arizona Radiator and Muffler Service.

Thanks for the prickly art, folks. And thanks too, Gregg, for taking the time to get off of your bike and snap some photos!

2925 East Glenn Street

This green mailbox isn't especially interesting by itself, but it shows a way that some people avoid going outside (in this case, by the green mesh gate) to get the mail. Though I didn't actually check it, boxes like this usually have a second door inside the wall.

I snapped the photo on June 12th. You can also see it — with a lot of other “flat” art — on the Tucson Murals Project blog. (It's in today's April 18 entry.)

4009 East Kilmer Street

It's a poetic setting for this green mailbox with the house number cut into a large plate at the right side of its post.

I took the photo on May 27, 2013.

4010 East Kilmer Street

This rust-finished mailbox and post have the house address in twin-peaked flat metal on top:

It's one of the boxes I found May 27, 2013, along this street in the Poet's Square neighborhood.

4042 East Kilmer Street

This white mailbox has a colorful black-outlined house number.

I snapped the photos on May 27, 2013.

4241 East Poe Street

On my early-morning May 27th ride, I found this black mailbox, on a rickety post, painted with puffs (or are they flowers?).

4227 East Poe Street

A black mailbox with handpainted vine and blosssoms, snapped on May 27, 2013.

4044 East Poe Street

There's no missing the house number perched on top of this brown mailbox. The box is on a post made from twisted wood (with steel behind).

I found it May 27, 2013.

4033 East Poe Street

Somehow this black house-shaped mailbox with fancy scrollwork supports looked to me like something out of Edgar Allan Poe.

I crept by on May 27, 2013.

4035 East Elmwood Street

Here's a yellow mailbox with handpainted flowers:

It's the last box I found on my morning ride May 26th.

4118 East Burns Street

This gold-colored mailbox has wild handpainted flowers:

It's the last of our boxes from Burns Street — this section of it, at least. I was there on May 26th, 2013.

4145 East Burns Street

This bright mosaic-covered mailbox...

...is in front of a beautifully decorated home, which you can see by clicking there (to view it on the Tucson Murals Project blog).

I visited on May 26, 2013.

4241 East Burns Street

This plain metal mailbox has a post surrounded by prickly pear made of brown metal. (Yes, it's at 4241 East Burns. The first 4 is missing.)

I snapped the photo on May 26, 2013.

4231 East Burns Street

Though I couldn't find a house number on this white mailbox, Google Maps Street View tells me that it's at 4231 E. Burns. Rocks and a piece of weathered wood surrounded its (partly bent) post.

I took the photo on May 26th, 2013.

4144 East Oxford Drive

This white mailbox has handpainted green vine:



I found it on May 26th.

4132 East Oxford Drive

This white mailbox looks similar to some others I've seen around town. Maybe they're made by a local artist?

It has rectangles with desert scenes. I rolled by on May 26, 2013.

4143 East Oxford Drive

I found this blue mailbox with butterflies (one only partly finished?) on May 26th.

4201 East Oxford Drive

Here's a black mailbox with intricate white patterns... and a couple of bits of red:

I snapped the photos on May 26, 2013.

4220 East Oxford Drive

When I rolled by this home on May 26, I couldn't find a house number. It was between 4214 and 4232 E. Oxford Drive, though, and Google Maps gave me the address 4220:

It's a gloriously hand-painted white box.

4245 East Kings Road

Here's one last box from this two-block stretch of Kings Road. It's white with bronze and copper trim, and it's on a post that's shorter than most boxes’:

I snapped all of the Kings Road boxes on May 26th, 2013.