Thursday, January 1, 2026

the ubiquitous mailbox crows of Eldorado


Let me be clear - we don't have one ourselves.  But if there's any local vernacular art - local to Eldorado itself - it's surely oriented around mailboxes: painted, personalized, and yes - in a number of cases - adorned with tin crows.  Sometimes, indeed, there's a real live crow instead, but they tend to flap away.  This one seems to have a shiny glass lozenge in its beak: I can't tell (given that it's New Year's Day) whether that's a piece of festive decoration, or an attempt to make this particular corvid stand out from the flock.