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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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outrage (when I must).
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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
who owns “breaking rust”?
what’s behind the curtain?
can an #AIartist exist?
is there an artist using AI as their medium?
what are we losing to algorithms?
what’s behind the curtain?
November 11, 2025 at 5:28 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
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it’s seemed a ghost for a while (neglected and trashed) and it lost quite a bit of it’s power when the surrounding freeway came down
still with water flowing it was a sight
it saddens me too
from wiki, the plaza, the fountain, the freeway, the piers, the bay
November 9, 2025 at 2:29 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
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
…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
…“I am a Nomad’s son”
for #SmallPoemSunday a bit on time and living
on this day when we try to reset both
by #Jidimajia, in translation by #WangPing
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
After leaving a busy dock We come to a new railway station We chase time like this all our lives The journey seems to repeat itself But we never reach the so-called destination Let me tell you, I am a Nomad’s son Love and death are nothing but a way of living And everything happens along the path
November 2, 2025 at 5:09 PM
rickehling.bsky.social
the #Aztecsun at CCSF Mission Campus on Valencia is out 24/7, it too has little use for daylight savings time. #SanFrancisco #sunday 🌞 🕐 🕛 #publicart
Aztec Sun Stone, or Tonalmachiotl by US artists Alex Garza and Carlos Valenzuela. 27 feet diameter, over 600 tiles.
November 2, 2025 at 3:56 PM
rickehling.bsky.social
today a bit of concrete poetry from April’s poetry challenges
for #SmallPoemSunday #poetry
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social and also #senryusunday
there’s only one less way up then down
October 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
rickehling.bsky.social
a bit of melancholia for the moment
too early for #SmallPoemSunday but small enough
#poetry
…in the end there will be water and sky free as ever from man’s controlling eye hard to grasp with a greedy hand …wishing the same were true of land © Rick Ehling ✍️ 10/2025
October 24, 2025 at 3:38 AM
rickehling.bsky.social
#SFSidewalkHaiku #235
six feet of - not
your mother’s impatiens -
staring down my shears
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 10/13/2025, 📷 02/02/2025

#Haiku #NoeValley #SanFrancisco #California 🌱 #impatiens #gardening
#alphabetchallenge #weekPforPink
Impatiens side ii, poor man’s rhododendron, an African native very common in SF, where it has naturalized. My neighbors’ plants sent volunteers most years.
October 14, 2025 at 1:45 PM
rickehling.bsky.social
…before the infusion center
#SmallPoemSunday #poetry #caregiving 🍜
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
Caregiving. Another pot of soup flavored with my tears
October 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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© Rick Ehling 📷 09/30/2025
#silentsunday #SkySunday #lookingnorth #theGoldenGate #SanFrancisco #California
autumn comes to the Golden Gate
October 12, 2025 at 1:23 PM
rickehling.bsky.social
#SFSidewalkHaiku #234
Autumn fading gold
Leaves dry then fall Yet here
too, new life blooms
©️ Rick Ehling ✍️ 10/07/2025 📷 10/01/2025

🌱 #haikusaturday #Haiku 🍂
Cassia, a fall bloomer here, and a pretty common sidewalk tree
October 11, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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October 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM
rickehling.bsky.social
i know it wasn’t about it…
but the shade is the chef’s kiss, so i’ve chosen a maga friendly gif
October 10, 2025 at 11:12 AM
rickehling.bsky.social
Sent. #yeson50 while we still can vote…mail in or other #california

And yes I’d prefer ending gerrymandering everywhere but enough of Republican and supreme court games on #votingrights
California mail in voting envelope
October 9, 2025 at 11:19 PM