Many stand in friendly groups.
Do you prefer red or green?
Yellow or blue?
Grey or silver perhaps? Or black? Some stand beside fruit stalls.
Our mail box stands in a group of 4. Do you have a mail box or letterbox ? Have you ever taken it's photograph?
Yours look very civilised and restrained compared to some you see in these parts! One very popular one is in the shape of a manatee standing on his tail!
ReplyDeleteG'day Ali
ReplyDeleteI love the letterboxs in NZ & especially the ones around Alexandris in the south island ... I have a lovely letterbox it was rainbow colours first but now matches my fence - if you pop on over to my place it you will see it in the slide show at the bottom of my page...
I also love your fabric baskets you have made ... I have the pattern but I think I need to get in & make some - 'doing' instead of 'thinking' ... ha ha
OOroo ... Bethel of Bethania
Definitely red for me.
ReplyDeleteNice post!
We have a mailbox standing in a group of three. None of the mailboxes around here are the least bit interesting so I never thought of taking a picture of them.
ReplyDeleteWhile staying near Rotorua I noticed a number of mailboxes made out of old microwave ovens!
ReplyDeleteI remember seeing some very decorative mail boxes when I was in NZ a few years ago.
ReplyDeleteNo such thing here, just a slot in the outer front door.
The mailman brings the mail to my door.
ReplyDeleteLoved seeing the rural mailboxes. I have a cousin who is a Rural Malman.
ReplyDeleteRemember the ones on welded chains with curves. I remember seeing some publication with just unusual mail boxes as it's subject matter.
Perhaps it was a Kiwi publishing effort?
It would make a fun subject for a quilt. All different sorts of mailboxes.
ReplyDeleteOurs is quite beat up. We apparently had a crazy lady in our neighborhood who took all her aggression out on the mailboxes. She wanted everyone to conform & get the locked boxes that the postoffice would put in for a fee. She like the neatness of them. She thought individual boxes were messy looking. She went around & beat on the boxes, even hooked them to her bumper & took them down until someone caught her at it, & turned her in! All the time we were blaming wild teens! & it was a crazy house-wife!
I have often thought about taking photos of mailboxes. The RSD (Road Side Delivery) boxes here in Australia are amazing. It is a wonder that mail is ever retreived from them in one piece.
ReplyDeleteBTW the pub on my blog is the one on "Heartbeat" which is a British program set in 1960's Yorkshire.
Cheers,
Jenny
Pretty colored mailboxes! Some people are pushing them down aroung here for fun...hey, could you go pick up all those avos and send them to me?? Hee!
ReplyDeleteThe green tone in nicely with their surroundings, but oh the red! Isn't it fabulous!
ReplyDeleteI'll have to stop and take photos of some of our country ones in future. Lots of humour in some of them.