Do you think there was some sort of organized system to determine who got to have the mailbox decorated to look like a barn?

Do you wonder why five mailboxes share one ledge and two others are ostracized?

Do you wonder why the numbers aren’t in numerical order?

Do you wonder why mailbox 2 is so much bigger than the others?

Do you wonder why the mailbox on the far left tilts away from the rest?

No? Really?

Must be just me.

Uhland, Texas
photographed 5.10.2013

UPDATE:
I am lucky to have many site followers who contribute to One Day | One Image by posting comments. Today, my friend Ehpem posted a comment on the photos that was far better than what I wrote in my original post. It was so good, in fact, that I am promoting the comment. Here it is – enjoy!

Sorry guys, but it’s Texas politics.

The boxes on the left…actually they are in the centre, but Melinda cropped off the far left because there was nothing to see.

So those boxes in the centre, they *are* shunned, and on their way out. The one leaning is looking around for a train, preferably headed for the left coast.

The ones on the right are jostling for the far right position and barely able to stand being on the same platform as each other.

The number 2 is large because tea chests have to fit in it, filled with money. I hear there are plans to erect its own post and put a steeple on it with some pretty glass windows, bullet proof of course. Plans stalled while they figure out if they can rip out the existing platform and stay close to the main vines, of if they have to nuture that straight up vine to the far right so they can put there post well clear of the others.

The barn? That was from the days when agriculture and common sense meant something in local politics, and people needed somewhere to keep the elephant. Surpising that someone spruced it up, as I expected it to look a bit like Melinda’s usual fare. Maybe someone still hopes the elephant will be found and returned to the right barn.

The vine? Tendrils of influence from wealthy interest groups.

Well said, Ehpem. Well said.