rick
@rickehling.bsky.social
physician, walker, poet. 🩺🚶✍️ 📷 🌿🌱🍽️
San Francisco 🌅
#poetry, #opinions, #flowers, #art, #awe.
©, or credited.
outrage (when I must).
San Francisco 🌅
#poetry, #opinions, #flowers, #art, #awe.
©, or credited.
outrage (when I must).
November 30, 2025 at 6:28 PM
A turnip by
any other name would be
a rutabaga
©️ Rick Ehling ✍️ 11/28/25
#dailyhaikuprompt (turnip) #senryu
any other name would be
a rutabaga
©️ Rick Ehling ✍️ 11/28/25
#dailyhaikuprompt (turnip) #senryu
November 28, 2025 at 11:34 PM
A turnip by
any other name would be
a rutabaga
©️ Rick Ehling ✍️ 11/28/25
#dailyhaikuprompt (turnip) #senryu
any other name would be
a rutabaga
©️ Rick Ehling ✍️ 11/28/25
#dailyhaikuprompt (turnip) #senryu
spending no 💸 today, or even this week, hardly seems like much after what i spent building up to 🦃 (and I’d like to buy my mom a wreath and a 🎄)
i’ve not been big on Giving Tuesdays, timing my gifts at 🎉 and my 🎂
this Tuesday 12/02, however, i’m giving to foster kids, food banks, and immigrants
i’ve not been big on Giving Tuesdays, timing my gifts at 🎉 and my 🎂
this Tuesday 12/02, however, i’m giving to foster kids, food banks, and immigrants
November 28, 2025 at 6:55 PM
spending no 💸 today, or even this week, hardly seems like much after what i spent building up to 🦃 (and I’d like to buy my mom a wreath and a 🎄)
i’ve not been big on Giving Tuesdays, timing my gifts at 🎉 and my 🎂
this Tuesday 12/02, however, i’m giving to foster kids, food banks, and immigrants
i’ve not been big on Giving Tuesdays, timing my gifts at 🎉 and my 🎂
this Tuesday 12/02, however, i’m giving to foster kids, food banks, and immigrants
#onward
the start of a winter hike at #fortfunston #SanFrancisco
#caesious ( another beautiful every vowel words {in order too}, in its alternate spelling)
#alphabetchallenge #weekVforVowels 🔵 🌚
📷 MDL, 12/26/2024
the start of a winter hike at #fortfunston #SanFrancisco
#caesious ( another beautiful every vowel words {in order too}, in its alternate spelling)
#alphabetchallenge #weekVforVowels 🔵 🌚
📷 MDL, 12/26/2024
November 26, 2025 at 5:31 PM
#onward
the start of a winter hike at #fortfunston #SanFrancisco
#caesious ( another beautiful every vowel words {in order too}, in its alternate spelling)
#alphabetchallenge #weekVforVowels 🔵 🌚
📷 MDL, 12/26/2024
the start of a winter hike at #fortfunston #SanFrancisco
#caesious ( another beautiful every vowel words {in order too}, in its alternate spelling)
#alphabetchallenge #weekVforVowels 🔵 🌚
📷 MDL, 12/26/2024
#SFSidewalkHaiku #241
in this race with frost
my heart sides
with stubborn losers
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 11/25/2025 📷 11/08/2025 🌱
#dailyhaikuprompt (frost) #senryu #california #autumn
in this race with frost
my heart sides
with stubborn losers
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 11/25/2025 📷 11/08/2025 🌱
#dailyhaikuprompt (frost) #senryu #california #autumn
November 26, 2025 at 5:56 AM
#SFSidewalkHaiku #241
in this race with frost
my heart sides
with stubborn losers
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 11/25/2025 📷 11/08/2025 🌱
#dailyhaikuprompt (frost) #senryu #california #autumn
in this race with frost
my heart sides
with stubborn losers
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 11/25/2025 📷 11/08/2025 🌱
#dailyhaikuprompt (frost) #senryu #california #autumn
Reposted by rick
A little poem for your Thanksgiving.
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
A little poem for your Thanksgiving.
pretty much sums up much of what our rush to deport is costing us - a nurse and mother, an evangelical at that (while we hear about persecuted Christians in Africa)
then add the costs of detention and separation
and the uneasy 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 border
glad it ended OK for her 🎁 #ICE #immigration #asylum
then add the costs of detention and separation
and the uneasy 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 border
glad it ended OK for her 🎁 #ICE #immigration #asylum
She Tried to Leave America. She Entered an Immigration Hall of Mirrors.
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:18 PM
pretty much sums up much of what our rush to deport is costing us - a nurse and mother, an evangelical at that (while we hear about persecuted Christians in Africa)
then add the costs of detention and separation
and the uneasy 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 border
glad it ended OK for her 🎁 #ICE #immigration #asylum
then add the costs of detention and separation
and the uneasy 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 border
glad it ended OK for her 🎁 #ICE #immigration #asylum
#up looking up…through a giant #sequoia
(gotta love a word with all the vowels - like education or automobile)
#alphabetchallenge #weekVforVowels🌲 #sanfrancisco
📷 from 12/2019
(gotta love a word with all the vowels - like education or automobile)
#alphabetchallenge #weekVforVowels🌲 #sanfrancisco
📷 from 12/2019
November 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
#up looking up…through a giant #sequoia
(gotta love a word with all the vowels - like education or automobile)
#alphabetchallenge #weekVforVowels🌲 #sanfrancisco
📷 from 12/2019
(gotta love a word with all the vowels - like education or automobile)
#alphabetchallenge #weekVforVowels🌲 #sanfrancisco
📷 from 12/2019
'Cause nothing compares
Nothing compares
…to you
Nothing compares
…to you
November 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
'Cause nothing compares
Nothing compares
…to you
Nothing compares
…to you
Thanksgiving
At this table, at least
Still speaking freely
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 09/28/2025
#senryusunday #senryu 🇺🇸 🦃🍗 #smallpoemsunday
At this table, at least
Still speaking freely
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 09/28/2025
#senryusunday #senryu 🇺🇸 🦃🍗 #smallpoemsunday
November 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Thanksgiving
At this table, at least
Still speaking freely
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 09/28/2025
#senryusunday #senryu 🇺🇸 🦃🍗 #smallpoemsunday
At this table, at least
Still speaking freely
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 09/28/2025
#senryusunday #senryu 🇺🇸 🦃🍗 #smallpoemsunday
Reposted by rick
Robert Hayden
What did I know, what did I know
of love's austere and lonely offices?
What did I know, what did I know
of love's austere and lonely offices?
November 22, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Robert Hayden
What did I know, what did I know
of love's austere and lonely offices?
What did I know, what did I know
of love's austere and lonely offices?
yellow, gold, and red
jaundiced, tea stained, tarnished all
what remains of Spring
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 11/17/2025
#dailyhaikuprompt (rake) #Haiku #senryu 🍃 🍂
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
yellow, gold, and red
jaundiced, tea stained, tarnished all
what remains of Spring
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 11/17/2025
#dailyhaikuprompt (rake) #Haiku #senryu 🍃 🍂
jaundiced, tea stained, tarnished all
what remains of Spring
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 11/17/2025
#dailyhaikuprompt (rake) #Haiku #senryu 🍃 🍂
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
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
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
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 4:50 PM
#SFSidewalkHaiku #240
Autumn dawn perhaps
sweeter in brief crisp light
Til snow, still blooming
©️Rick Ehling ✍️ 11/10/2025
#dailyhaikuprompt (first snow) #Haiku 🌱 🌧️ 🍂 🌨️
Autumn dawn perhaps
sweeter in brief crisp light
Til snow, still blooming
©️Rick Ehling ✍️ 11/10/2025
#dailyhaikuprompt (first snow) #Haiku 🌱 🌧️ 🍂 🌨️
November 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
#SFSidewalkHaiku #240
Autumn dawn perhaps
sweeter in brief crisp light
Til snow, still blooming
©️Rick Ehling ✍️ 11/10/2025
#dailyhaikuprompt (first snow) #Haiku 🌱 🌧️ 🍂 🌨️
Autumn dawn perhaps
sweeter in brief crisp light
Til snow, still blooming
©️Rick Ehling ✍️ 11/10/2025
#dailyhaikuprompt (first snow) #Haiku 🌱 🌧️ 🍂 🌨️
…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
wonder what a decade of delays and court costs will be - until this too dies like those who propose it
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
…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
wonder what a decade of delays and court costs will be - until this too dies like those who propose it
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? 🇺🇸
…and they’re buying it
as authentic
don’t hate the player I guess? 🇺🇸
November 11, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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? 🇺🇸
…and they’re buying it
as authentic
don’t hate the player I guess? 🇺🇸
#SFSidewalkHaiku #239
fading autumn
blue hydrangea graying
into snowballs
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 11/11/2025, 📷 10/26
#dailyhaikuprompt (fading) #Haiku 🍂❄️ #SanFrancisco
fading autumn
blue hydrangea graying
into snowballs
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 11/11/2025, 📷 10/26
#dailyhaikuprompt (fading) #Haiku 🍂❄️ #SanFrancisco
November 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
#SFSidewalkHaiku #239
fading autumn
blue hydrangea graying
into snowballs
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 11/11/2025, 📷 10/26
#dailyhaikuprompt (fading) #Haiku 🍂❄️ #SanFrancisco
fading autumn
blue hydrangea graying
into snowballs
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 11/11/2025, 📷 10/26
#dailyhaikuprompt (fading) #Haiku 🍂❄️ #SanFrancisco
#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
#SanFrancisco from #SkylineBoulevard (State Route 25) between Redwood City and San Mateo #lookingnorth #scape #bluesky
November 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
#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
#SanFrancisco from #SkylineBoulevard (State Route 25) between Redwood City and San Mateo #lookingnorth #scape #bluesky
a bit on the drakes, mother and son, by me today
#SmallPoemSunday #poetry #ekphrastic ✍️ 🎶 🇬🇧 #thedrakes
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
#SmallPoemSunday #poetry #ekphrastic ✍️ 🎶 🇬🇧 #thedrakes
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
a bit on the drakes, mother and son, by me today
#SmallPoemSunday #poetry #ekphrastic ✍️ 🎶 🇬🇧 #thedrakes
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
#SmallPoemSunday #poetry #ekphrastic ✍️ 🎶 🇬🇧 #thedrakes
@tomsnarsky.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
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
November 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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
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
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
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
Oh good. the 50-year mortgage. That should solve everything.
November 9, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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
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
which grain of sand
stabilizes a seacliff
or holds back the sea
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 11/02/2025
#senryusunday #senryu #poetry⏳
stabilizes a seacliff
or holds back the sea
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 11/02/2025
#senryusunday #senryu #poetry⏳
November 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
which grain of sand
stabilizes a seacliff
or holds back the sea
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 11/02/2025
#senryusunday #senryu #poetry⏳
stabilizes a seacliff
or holds back the sea
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 11/02/2025
#senryusunday #senryu #poetry⏳
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 🌱 🚶 🌇
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
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 🌱 🚶 🌇
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 🌱 🚶 🌇