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@rickehling.bsky.social
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physician, walker, poet. 🩺🚶✍️ 📷 🌿🌱🍽️
San Francisco 🌅
#poetry, #opinions, #flowers, #art, #awe.
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rickehling.bsky.social
yellow, gold, and red
jaundiced, tea stained, tarnished all
what remains of Spring
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 11/17/2025

#dailyhaikuprompt (rake) #Haiku #senryu 🍃 🍂
November 18, 2025 at 9:54 PM
rickehling.bsky.social
turned the heat on today, a first since spring rains stopped

one of the markers that winter’s approaching in SF
not that’s it’s ever really cold, or hot, for long
but it’s a wet windy chill when it comes
and at 3:30 it’s also time for lighting (also oddly early)
#SanFrancisco
November 16, 2025 at 11:53 PM
rickehling.bsky.social
as fall stiffens into cold
a bit of #AEHousman for #SmallPoemSunday 🍂🌨️ 🕯️ @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
The Night Is Freezing Fast The night is freezing fast, To-morrow comes December; And winterfalls of old Are with me from the past; And chiefly I remember How Dick would hate the cold. Fall, winter, fall; for he, Prompt hand and headpiece clever, Has woven a winter robe, And made of earth and sea His overcoat for ever, And wears the turning globe.
November 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
rickehling.bsky.social
#SFSidewalkHaiku #240
Autumn dawn perhaps
sweeter in brief crisp light
Til snow, still blooming
©️Rick Ehling ✍️ 11/10/2025
#dailyhaikuprompt (first snow) #Haiku 🌱 🌧️ 🍂 🌨️
our recent heat wave brought out the day lilies, briefly no snow here, but they won’t like the cold rain much either
November 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
rickehling.bsky.social
…only ones ever making money off this are lawyers and political fundraisers
wonder what a decade of delays and court costs will be - until this too dies like those who propose it
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11d
The Trump administration plans to propose new oil and gas drilling off the California coast for the first time in roughly four decades, since an enormous oil spill near Santa Barbara in 1969 shocked the nation and helped to galvanize the environmental movement. nyti.ms/47WvBuz
Trump Is Said to Have a Plan to Open California Waters to Drilling
The move would set up a clash with Gov. Gavin Newsom, a chief critic of the president and an opponent of oil exploration in the Pacific.
nyti.ms
November 11, 2025 at 6:43 PM
rickehling.bsky.social
country charts 🤠 🎶 are now topped by an #AIartist (owned anonymously) with just enough grit and mississippi delta in their shtick, singing about “kicking rocks” and living through hell to people who have actually “been beat down”
…and they’re buying it
as authentic

don’t hate the player I guess? 🇺🇸
November 11, 2025 at 5:13 PM
rickehling.bsky.social
#SFSidewalkHaiku #239
fading autumn
blue hydrangea graying
into snowballs
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 11/11/2025, 📷 10/26

#dailyhaikuprompt (fading) #Haiku 🍂❄️ #SanFrancisco
the last hydrangea have started their molt to gray and tan, no snow here but they must be dusted back East
November 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
rickehling.bsky.social
#alphabetchallenge #weekTforTelevision, 📷 02/09/2025 #SiliconValley (though I’ve never seen the show)

#SanFrancisco from #SkylineBoulevard (State Route 25) between Redwood City and San Mateo #lookingnorth #scape #bluesky
from Skyline Boulevard, San Francisco to the north, Silicon Valley and the Bay below, on a post storm winter day
November 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
rickehling.bsky.social
a bit on the drakes, mother and son, by me today
#SmallPoemSunday #poetry #ekphrastic ✍️ 🎶 🇬🇧 #thedrakes
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
( listening to the Drakes ) happiness is like a bird with twenty wings a six armed lover dusk’s pink pink splendor sleep before you stir in saturday’s sun that last bite savored before dinner is done a high dive flowing between bounce and wet first memory of lost innocence a high, a craving a withdrawal, an addiction there’s no saving once lost in it’s affliction
November 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
rickehling.bsky.social
a bronze chair mimicking a castoff, throwing a nice shadow in the Pacific sun

a bit of comfort and #publicart #streetart while waiting for the MUNI (#NJudah) #SanFrancisco

and a bit late but under the wire for #alphabetchallenge #weekSforShadows
fixed and metal, a bit of street art and seating
November 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
rickehling.bsky.social
let the “serfification” of 🇺🇸 continue
apparently we’re all to be renters but also responsible for maintenance costs and taxes

(and are some of these newer homes being built even designed to last 50 years?)

let’s insure NEW generational wealth takes generations to build 🧵/1
thedotcity.bsky.social patrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social · 13d
Oh good. the 50-year mortgage. That should solve everything.
November 9, 2025 at 1:45 PM
rickehling.bsky.social
which grain of sand
stabilizes a seacliff
or holds back the sea
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 11/02/2025

#senryusunday #senryu #poetry⏳
November 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
rickehling.bsky.social
many #SanFrancisco streets, sidewalks, walls, and backyards (mine), sport cobblestones from the 1870’s thru the great quake

or castoffs re-purposed
myth says they’re ballast, but first was wood, then American River rocks and the common basalt style pavers are from Northern California quarries 🌱 🚶 🌇
In a Skyscraper City, They Fix Cobblestone Streets by Hand
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:35 PM
rickehling.bsky.social
#SFSidewalkHaiku #238
each pink bloom hot
defiant even calling
out to Spring…elsewhere
©️ Rick Ehling 11/07/2025 ✍️, 11/06/2025 📷

#Haiku #haikusaturday 🌱🇨🇱 #cistanthe #rockpurslane
cistanthe grandiflora, a Chilean native, now endemic in California and pretty much a year round bloomer if it gets a bit of moisture, which it did this week
November 8, 2025 at 4:35 PM
rickehling.bsky.social
and a 🎁 of #poetry for those of you who need a break from doomscrolling too #waterlilies #monet #roberthayden
This Poem About Monet’s “Water Lilies” Reflects on the Powers and Limits of Art (Gift Article)
“Monet’s ‘Waterlilies,’” by Robert Hayden, reflects on what art can (and can’t) do in tumultuous times. Our critic A.O. Scott shows you why he loves it.
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
rickehling.bsky.social
I too hope #sandwichguy #SeanDunn decides to go into the restaurant business 🇺🇸🥪🍽️
let’s all crowd-source his menu 🙋🏼‍♂️

Sandwich 47 “the trump years II”
baloney, white bread, mayo…ketchup and the tiniest pickles you’ve ever seen

and the price goes up monthly but it’s listed as a best buy or favorite
November 7, 2025 at 7:07 AM
rickehling.bsky.social
this iron wind
cares not for last year’s
blossoms, fruit, or leaves
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 11/03/2025

#dailyhaikuprompt (north wind) #Haiku
🍂 ❄️ 🌸 🍑
November 7, 2025 at 6:34 AM
rickehling.bsky.social
november moon
falling, marching, mourning
ending in thanks
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 11/03/2025

#dailyhaikuprompt (moon rise) #Haiku
🌚 🍂 🗳️ 🥁 🍗
November 7, 2025 at 6:31 AM
rickehling.bsky.social
Nancy Pelosi deserved her victory lap, aging better than most of the gerontocracy
But it’s time for the new
I hope that doesn’t mean her daughter (I hate dynastic politics)
We have two excellent announced candidates, more now are sure to enter
🇺🇸 #California #SanFrancisco (📷 from the web)
applause protest just being a boss …and celebrating a family that doesn’t always need to be on TV or in the news
November 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
rickehling.bsky.social
#SFSidewalkHaiku #237
November flowers
Reflecting sunlight
Signaling change
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 11/04/2025, 📷 11/03/2025
#Haiku 🌱 #treemarigold 🇺🇸 #itsmorningagaininAmerica #California
the miracle that is tree marigold, out for the day of the dead and then well into winter here in San Francisco mostly as a shrub but occasionally up to 20 feet
November 5, 2025 at 7:34 AM
rickehling.bsky.social
and the 🍒 on the 🍨
#Proposition50 called in #california by AP just after voting closes
A good day for 🇺🇸 is a bad day for fascists
12 minutes after polls close, AP calls California redistricting 🎉 🍾 🥳 👏🏻
November 5, 2025 at 4:17 AM
rickehling.bsky.social
“if I can help NYC, just let me know what I can do.”
November 5, 2025 at 4:05 AM
rickehling.bsky.social
…a gift of #daylightsavings ?
the seamlessness of #brunch without the late night dancing
#beitrima #SanFrancisco 🫓🧆 🍽️
(conveniently on both sides of the sunset tunnel, #NJudah)
the storefront face of Beit Rima from their parklet on Church brunch is the mezzo sampler and delicata squash w/ brown butter lebna and dukkah (a bit of honey in the lebna), pita, and… … MUSAKHAN baharat spiced chicken, toasted pita, caramelized onions, pine nuts, Palestinian sumac moist and crunchy with a cold beer
November 3, 2025 at 4:08 PM
rickehling.bsky.social
#SFSidewalkHaiku #236
in spring showers and
autumn morning mist, monkey
flower pauseless

© Rick Ehling ✍️ 11/02/2025, 📷 04/17 and 11/02/2025

#dailyhaikuprompt (endure, morning) #Haiku 🌱🌿 #California #nativeplant
spring and Diplacus (Mimulus) bifidus 'White' starts her show…with a bit of water every 10-14 days it never stops. fall and the same plant (Diplacus (Mimulus) bifidus 'White') waits for winter rain and trimming.
November 3, 2025 at 3:57 PM
rickehling.bsky.social
sad and true and the killer of what I like to think of as “neighborhood restaurants”

Places that opened all day and closed maybe a bit later

that allowed us to relax and entertain without cleaning and then recleaning the house

Extensions as opposed to destinations
theatlantic.com The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 19d
In the Wonder Reader, Rafaela Jinich explores how food delivery became both a marvel of modern life and a warning about what we lose to our growing appetite for convenience.
How Delivery Ate the Restaurant
Delivery apps are feeding our craving for convenience.
bit.ly
November 2, 2025 at 11:49 PM