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Trying out my new 12-60mm Zuiko lens. Very impressed with the clarity and the colour reproduction.
This is The Mailbox in Birmingham, very expensive shops at the base, BBC offices in the middle and my office at the top.
We're not much on the decorated mailboxes, we want them big and strong and made out of heavy duty metal. This is our second mailbox since we moved in, in September 98. The first one, the pole that it's on was too close to the road. Curb crawlers and rubberneckers thwacked our mailbox off its post several times. Enough that the box either wouldn't shut properly, or would shut so firmly, there was no opening the bloody thing.
Bye bye, black mailbox from the now defunct Farm and Family down the road. Hello green, smaller but the biggest one that the (at that time) brand spanking new Home Depot a little bit further down the road. The wee yellow thingy is for one of our daily papers.
The other two local papers don't offer one, whichI guess is OK, as we don't need a fairy circle of paper mailboxes. The other two and the Sunday-only-subscription Philadelphia Inquirer, wrap their editions in plastic. Every time I'm the one to pick up the paper, I have that raspy voiced Twin Peaks guy going through my head.
It's the paper! It's dead! Wrapped in plastic!
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A bit over a week ago I walked down to the mail box to get the mail. When I got to the corner things never looked quite right. It took me a little while to comprehend that my mailbox was laying on its side to the north of Marks mailbox and his mailbox was facing north instead of west as it should. My mailbox had been on the south of his mailbox.
Someone had been down on the bottom ground a lot of the morning spraying the fields and going on south from this corner. I saw one sprayer head on north in the early afternoon. I figure the trailer they haul it on caught the hedge post my mailbox is on and pulled it into Marks and on out of the ground.
As my hedge post has a few curves in it, it wouldn’t go back in the hole until I made the hole bigger and tamped the dirt back around the post. I bent the box back more like it should be but the door was still a long way from closing. I went back up to the house and got two small sledge hammers and using them together I got it back so it would close along with Marks, as it wouldn’t close either. They still have some battle scars but they are still functional.
And to top it all off there was a Jury Summons for both Kathy and me in the box. If the government says someone did something, I’ll acquit them, unless it’s destroying mailboxes.
The Mailbox and the John Rocha designed Orion building in Birmingham. As seen from the 20th floor of the city's iconic Rotunda.
Canon 40d
Sigma 18-200mm
Saturday, March 24, 2007.
We found one of the 400 mailboxes that the US Post Office dressed as R2D2 for the 30th birthday of the Original Star Wars movies. This one is on Fifth Ave, in front of the Apple Store.
Lori thankful to get to the mailbox. The last part up the ridge was hot and muggy. We had the whole mountain to ourselves today because of the paving project.