Mailboxes Etcetera

This post is along overdue promise for Celia who wanted mailboxes on my blog. I now know where to find a vast assortment to spice up my blog when I feel like it.

I used to think the idea of a mail box project was overwhelming until I ended up on Caribbean Drive on Summerland Key. Every other mailbox was personalized:

This one was one of those East Coast style lighthouses built on land. Not the metal screw type used in the Florida Keys rock:

I liked the mermaid with her rouged cheeks and lips in a permanent pout:

I hope I can get closer than this to a manatee this winter, above, or this grouper (?) below.

While I grant you this stand pipe isn't technically a mail box I have never previously seen such a thing do double duty as a house number marker:

And to close out this series of tropical mail boxes here is mine on Indies Road on Ramrod Key. In the picture I managed to mask the fact that I recently dropped a coconut on it when pruning the tree above it, giving it a large, unsightly dent. My wife, who warned me of potential missile damage as I pruned the fruit had not a harsh word to say to me after I bombed our own mailbox. It is thanks to such forbearance that our marriage survives.

Mind you it took a fair bit of work on my part to bury this bugger in a bed of cement. We may tire of the decorated box but I promise you, that post is there to stay, come hell or high water.