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#SFSidewalkHaiku #202
Cherry fallen Plum
too Past peach petalled Last
Apricot blossoms
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 05/2024, 📷 03/30/2025

#dailyhaikuprompt (plum) #Haiku #haikusaturday #oubaitori 桜梅桃李 #NoeValley #SanFrancisco 🌱🌸
Ornamental plum putting on a show.
April 5, 2025 at 10:32 AM
rickehling.bsky.social
#SFSidewalkHaiku #216
California
Gold everywhere Even
dripping from branches
©️ Rick Ehling ✍️ 05/06/2025 📷 05/04/2025 🌱🌿 🚶🌇
#dailyhaikuprompt(yellow) #Haiku #haikusaturday #saturdayhaiku #flannelbush #fremontodendron #NoeValley #SanFrancisco #California
fremontodendron putting on its show across a sidewalk in NoeValley #SanFrancisco #California
May 17, 2025 at 1:48 PM
rickehling.bsky.social
#SFSidewalkHaiku #191
Neither apple nor
rose Yet in these winter rains
Earth still hinting Spring
© Rick Ehling ✍️01/04/2025 📷 12/22/2024 🌱🌸🚶🌇 #camellia #NoeValley #SanFrancisco #California #Haiku #haikusaturday
A blushing camellia, a winter flower here in NoeValley, SanFrancisco, California. Blooming while most sleep.
January 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
rickehling.bsky.social
#SFSidewalkHaiku #220
snowfall stilled
blossoms showering
scent suspended
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 04/07/2025 📷 03/18/2025 🌱 🚶🌁
#wisteria #NoeValley #SanFrancisco #California
#dailyhaikuprompt (first snow) #Haiku #haikusaturday
White wisteria falling into spring.
May 31, 2025 at 1:19 PM
annaleen.bsky.social
If you are in Noe Valley, SF, and were wondering about the new ice cream place, let me reassure you that it is extremely good. You will want to try the caramel crack topping if you like flavor. #sfbay #noevalley #icecream
August 1, 2025 at 3:13 AM
rickehling.bsky.social
#SFSidewalkHaiku #195
Spring gathers
Not yet green Petals
awaiting wind
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 02/13/2025 📷 03/02/2025

🌱🚶🌇 #plum #Haiku #dailyhaikuprompt (green) #NoeValley #SanFrancisco #California
Plum blossoms I think on the still bare branches as Spring starts to break through
March 12, 2025 at 12:56 PM
rickehling.bsky.social
#SFSidewalkHaiku #200
Some say Spring
captured Look close she’s
escaping

©️ Rick Ehling ✍️ 📷 03/24/2025 🌱🚶🌇 #senryu #NoeValley #SanFrancisco #California #alphabetchallenge #WeekMForMulticoloured
The hanging baskets are putting on their show.
March 30, 2025 at 3:08 PM
rickehling.bsky.social
today’s Farmers Market in #NoeValley #SanFrancisco
🌱 🍜 🍽️ 📷 bok choy, green garlic, spring onions, leeks, chicory, lettuce, portobellos, beets w/ greens, radishes, carrots, and broccoli
also a thrift store tart plate and free backyard citrus
#californiafarmersfeedAmerica 👨‍🌾👨🏼‍🌾👨🏾‍🌾
#immigrantspickyourfood
Late winter California produce. None better.
March 8, 2026 at 2:00 AM
rickehling.bsky.social
#SFSidewalkHaiku #212
Bursting forth
after fire, heat forged
Sun for sun
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 03/30/2025 📷 03/18/2025 🌱 🚶🌁 #protea 🇿🇦 #NoeValley #SanFrancisco
#dailyhaikuprompt (warming) #Haiku #haikusaturday #pyrophilic P
Protea greeting the day.
May 3, 2025 at 1:46 PM
rickehling.bsky.social

©️Rick Ehling 📷 10/07/2024. #alphabetchallenge #weekOfororange #29thstreet #lookingeast #NoeValley #SanFrancisco #California #predawn
Early morning and even prettier if you climb the hill.
October 7, 2024 at 4:58 PM
rickehling.bsky.social
#SFSidewalkHaiku #245
in this fading
scratch of daylight
cactus flowers
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 01/26/2026 📷 10/26/2025
🌼 🌵 🌱 🍂 #Haiku #haikusaturday #NoeValley
cactus flowering in later autumn here in SF
January 31, 2026 at 6:10 AM
pablomicasf.bsky.social
Yesterday’s #urbansketch tightened up. #penandink #sketchbook #noevalley

Enjoy!
May 2, 2025 at 8:33 PM
rickehling.bsky.social
Why I walk 🚶🌇 © Rick Ehling 📷 05/09/2024. #NoeValley #SanFrancisco #California backside #22ndstreet #junglestairs #lookingeast #urbanmeadow #superbloom #californianativeplants #yellowlupine #Clarkia #yarrow #poppy #monkeyflower #douglasiris #silverlupine #coastalbuckwheat and naturalized #nastursium
The eastern side of 22nd street in NoeValley hosts a neighbor maintained native meadow, mostly native flowerss and currently very ablooom. A really nice urban hill walk.
May 21, 2024 at 12:54 PM
rickehling.bsky.social
#SFSidewalkHaiku #213
South African spring
precedes our own here Knowing
well, that rains won’t last
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 04/07/2025 📷 03/18/2025 🌱 🚶🌁 #freesia 🇿🇦 #NoeValley #SanFrancisco #California #Haiku
White freesia in a sidewalk pot
May 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
rickehling.bsky.social
#SFSidewalkHaiku #211
Filling stations
Monkeyflowers awaiting
hummingbirds
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 04/17/2025 📷 04/10/2025 🌱🌿🚶🌇
#dailyhaikuprompt (blossoms) #Haiku #senryu #NoeValley #SanFrancisco #California
A monkeyflower in orange awaiting visitors
April 29, 2025 at 1:01 PM
rickehling.bsky.social
#SFSidewalkHaiku #223
all this fretting
over loving…or not
choose to love yourself
©️Rick Ehling✍️📷 06/05/2025 🌱🚶🌇 #senryu #senryusunday #NoeValley #SanFrancisco #California #shastadaisy #bloomscrolling
Shasta daisies fighting the sun for attention Shasta daisies giving
June 8, 2025 at 12:33 PM
wiredrabbit.bsky.social
Morning sunrise over SF Bay from my lovely deck in Noe Valley
#Photography #Sanfrancisco #Noevalley #Californialife
April 2, 2025 at 6:59 PM
rickehling.bsky.social
#SFSidewalkHaiku #214
Flowers that say Hey
Golden spring not far away
And in their sway G’day
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 02/ /2025 📷 02/02/2025

#dailyhaikuprompt (yellow) #Haiku #winter #NoeValley #SanFrancisco #California 🌱🚶🌇 #silverwattle 🇦🇺
Silver wattle. Another import that beats the natives to bloom.
May 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
docpop.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
One block in Noe Valley is covered with these incredible crocheted creatures. I'm not sure who the artist is, but I love this. #sanfrancisco #noevalley
March 4, 2026 at 2:50 AM
rickehling.bsky.social
#SFSidewalkHaiku #224
all of the answers,
still questions and clues rest in
nature’s changing hues
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 06/07/2025, 📷 05/12/2025
#dailyhaikuprompt (green leaves) #Haiku #haikusaturday
#NoeValley #SanFrancisco 🌱 #abutilon
Flowering maple leaves, the color variation is due to a virus
June 14, 2025 at 4:54 AM
rickehling.bsky.social
#SFSidewalkHaiku #219
cliffside color wheel
our hills turn golden
from orange and green
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 05/24/2025 📷 04/13/2025 🌱🌿

#dailyhaikuprompt (hills) #Haiku #California #poppy #NoeValley #SanFrancisco
California poppy still putting on its show, here growing on and clinging to rock.
May 28, 2025 at 1:12 PM
rickehling.bsky.social
#SFSidewalkHaiku #222
what passes for
shelter blooming in
a spray of thorns
© Rick Ehling ✍️06/2025 📷 04/20/2025
#dailyhaikuprompt (spray) #Haiku #senryu 🌵🌱 #NoeValley #SanFrancisco
A sidewalk cactus in bloom, open to the sun… and a select set of pollinators
June 3, 2025 at 11:27 AM
rickehling.bsky.social
#SFSidewalkHaiku #215
Well past flirtation
In color, scent, abundance
Hence the “birds and bees”
© Rick Ehling ✍️05/10/2025 📷 04/17/2025🚶🌇 🌱 #rhododendron #NoeValley #SanFrancisco
#dailyhaikuprompt (flirt) #Haiku
Rhododendron and azalea have been out since March here but this is really the month for the showiest of them.
May 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
rickehling.bsky.social
#SFSidewalkHaiku #217
Arms open
Brightly embracing
last Spring rain
©️Rick Ehling ✍️ 04/16/2025 📷 04/16/2025 🌱🌿 🌇🚶

#dailyhaikuprompt (bright) #NoeValley #SanFrancisco #California #douglasiris
Douglas iris, our California native, is everywhere, from redwood to sidewalk
May 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
rickehling.bsky.social
#SFSidewalkHaiku #196
Spring starts in fringe, shocks
of color, flourishes After
cold austerity
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 02/08/2025 📷 02/02/2025

#Haiku #winter #NoeValley #SanFrancisco #California #fringeflower🌱🚶🌇
Fringeflower, a relative of witch hazel and an import from Asia, doing her February dance here in SF.
February 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM