Tuesday, April 5, 2016
Friday, April 1, 2016
2769 North Martin Avenue
A white mailbox with multicolored design that I found on November 20th, 2015:
I used my favorite free photo editor, GIMP, to brighten the flag.
Here's the other side. For some reason, I didn't catch all of it:
I used my favorite free photo editor, GIMP, to brighten the flag.
Here's the other side. For some reason, I didn't catch all of it:
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
5649 East 3rd Street
Quail and wildflowers cover this mailbox with a stuccoed post. David Aber found it. He wrote about it — and the previous two mailboxes:
“All three photos were taken on Feb. 16, 2016 and all three mailboxes were found in my usual way......by accident. In this case, I was looking for yards with lots of wildflowers. There’s quite a few homeowners (especially in midtown) that buy packaged wildflower seed from their local nursery and scatter it in their front yards. Right now it’s all in bloom. Looking for flowers in front yards, I could hardly miss the mailboxes.”
Thanks, as always, Dave!
Friday, March 25, 2016
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Saturday, March 19, 2016
Computer coming back to life
I'm on the road with my laptop computer. It went into a bizarre cycle of trying to fix itself, giving up, trying to fix again, and…. I finally gave up, wiped out my programs (a.k.a. "apps"), and re-installed Windows.
So the blog may not be back to normal until I'm home early next week. Sorry about that.
So the blog may not be back to normal until I'm home early next week. Sorry about that.
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Friday, March 11, 2016
Tuesday, March 8, 2016
Friday, March 4, 2016
5140 East Rosewood Street
David Aber sent photos of this mailbox — and matching planters:
David is a regular contributor to the Tucson Murals Project blog, but this is his first mailbox. Thank you, Dave!
David is a regular contributor to the Tucson Murals Project blog, but this is his first mailbox. Thank you, Dave!
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Friday, February 26, 2016
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
2738 North Estrella Avenue
Riding my bike by on November 20th, I couldn't miss this mailbox on a peace sign-shaped “post”:
That side of the box is painted with bright-colored flowers, but the flowers on the other side have faded:
Update (August 12, 2016): I just looked at this entry again and realized that the “post” isn't quite a peace sign. (Click to see a Google Image search for peace sign.) If you have an idea what this carving is, please leave a comment below. (You can remain anonymous.)
That side of the box is painted with bright-colored flowers, but the flowers on the other side have faded:
Update (August 12, 2016): I just looked at this entry again and realized that the “post” isn't quite a peace sign. (Click to see a Google Image search for peace sign.) If you have an idea what this carving is, please leave a comment below. (You can remain anonymous.)
Friday, February 19, 2016
2041 East Waverly Street
When I drove by this home on the route of the fall artists’ open studios tour November 14th, the scene looked as if an artist lives here:
Though I saw the house number on the red circle, I didn't notice the number on the curb:
The pole was painted in same style as the box and curb:
Thanks, homeowner, for this fun scene!
Though I saw the house number on the red circle, I didn't notice the number on the curb:
The pole was painted in same style as the box and curb:
Thanks, homeowner, for this fun scene!
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Friday, February 12, 2016
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Friday, January 29, 2016
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Friday, January 22, 2016
5714 East Lee Street
We usually don't show mailboxes with posts made of chain. But this black box is too different — at least, I haven't seen anything like it yet! Its “post,” made of bicycle or motorcycle chain, is in the shape of Arizona.
I rolled by on my November 7th ride and almost missed it; the chain looked like a jumble. Something made me stop and look a bit more…
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Friday, January 15, 2016
1003 North Sonoita Avenue
This gorgeous handpainted mailbox popped out along my early-morning bike ride November 7th. But the lighting — spots of bright sunshine and a mailbox with both black and white parts — made getting a good photograph a challenge. I've edited the photos to try to bring out the design:
That's the front of the mailbox.
That's the front of the mailbox.
Friday, January 8, 2016
Tuesday, January 5, 2016
Friday, January 1, 2016
5853 E. North Wilshire Drive
Let's start the new year at a mailbox decorated for one of places — the Orient. (It's west of the International Date Line, which means the time there is much later; it's far east of Arizona — so much that the day can be tomorrow there when it's “today” here. Think how New York's celebration at midnight in Times Square happens at 10 PM Arizona Time? And so on even farther east: midnight in London is 4 PM in Tucson.)
But enough world geography… this is a mailbox blog!
I'm not quite sure where this box is located. It's south of Park Place Mall. That neighborhood has both East North Wilshire Drive and East Wilshire Terrace. Bing Maps Streetside shows a home on E. North Wilshire, but it shows the house number as 5888 instead of the 5853 I wrote down. Hmmm.
Anyway, if you drive into that part of E. North Wilshire you'll see this mailbox on a stoneware post.
You can look forward to bunches of boxes in 2016.
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Being kind rocks (but...): 6046 East 14th Street
As I ride my bike around Tucson looking for artistic mailboxes, from time to time I realize that a clever design I first spotted a while back isn't so unique. This one, for instance, looks a lot like other boxes on a pile of rocks. The difference here is the Ben's Bells “be kind” sticker.
I rolled (and rocked) by on October 26th.
Four rocked-out (or -up) boxes are probably enough. So I'm going to add them to the Not these mailboxes list. If you want to see the other boxes on rocks, click there and scroll down the list.
Friday, December 25, 2015
239 North Silverbell Road
I noticed this mailbox on October 25th, while I was visiting an artist on one of the fall Open Studios Tours. The post is made from a (former) saguaro cactus:
Just by chance, the mailbox is Christmas-green. Here's the other side:
The wall around the home is worth a look, too. You can see it in yesterday's post on the Tucson Murals Project blog.
Tuesday, December 22, 2015
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