The door kept falling off of our mailbox, probably because some teenage boys up the road from us thought it was fun to smash mailboxes with baseball bats as they drove by late at night. We replaced the mailbox with one more suitable for actually holding the mail, but my husband thought this one would make a good bird house. He spiffed it up (added a wooden door with a bird sized hole for an entryway and a perch. It's actually a duplex with nest sites at both ends. He was rewarded when at least two pairs of house finches scoped it out and raised babies in it last summer. It is cold and lonely now, but will hopefully provide shelter for more avian friends come summer again.
I added just a touch of a chalk filter to this image - changed the shape and random placement of strokes, and dialed it back to about 20 percent. It was sunny but windy when I took this,
I'm not a fan of the processing, but there's a great sense of the sunny, cold, windy day, and maybe the processing has contributed to that. I do like the colors, and your background story gives warmth to the image.
i'm loving your story Patsy .. and how the letterbox became a home to your little feathered friends .. and not just an ordinary home but a duplex .. !! .. talk about living the high life .. !! ..
i rather like the chalk filter .. has it intensified the windy look .. :)
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