just perhaps…facts matter science matters truth matters 💉 🇺🇸 🩺 #medsky #publichealth #MAHAhahaha

…who needs stars…or star wars?

#SFSidewalkHaiku #248 Winter’s twilight, thaw complete This coast wakes to Spring © Rick Ehling ✍️ 03/07/2026, 📷 02/27/2026 #dailyhaikuprompt (twilight), #Haiku #bspp51 (winter boundary, frost line) 🌱 #CaliforniaPoppy #SanFrancisco #springforward (ugh) not much of a lion this year

#SkySunday #silentsunday #spring #thecreationofadam 📷 © Rick Ehling 02/27/2026 #PotreroHill #SanFrancisco

“fired” to a new position shifting silence © Rick Ehling ✍️ 03/07/2026 another exile I miss the Scaramuccis ✍️ 03/05/2026 this too shall pass dreaming is still free #senryu #senryusunday 🇺🇸 🗳️ 🕊️

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

learned this week that my “turn of the century” is now a century too old

#SFSidewalkHaiku #247 with March sun earth shifts from spice to citrus itching to spring © Rick Ehling ✍️ 03/06/2026 📷 #dailyhaikuprompt (spice) #Haiku #senryu #haikusaturday 🌱 🇦🇺 #australiancheesewood #victorianbox #mockorange #allergies 🤧 love the smell, hate the itchy eyes

WPA murals - frescoes, in traditional wet plaster technique, by Lucien Labuadt, and assistants - 1936-7 inside the Beach Chalet. #BeachChalet #GGNRA #OceanBeach #SanFrancisco #WPA #WPAart #Frescoes #mosaic #alphabetchallenge #weekIforInteriors 🧵/1 📷 © Rick Ehling 03/05/2026

this is the last sad news 🎁 i can read today, time for a forest bath i’m not sure why anyone would expect the 💸 cut from #healthcare to stop at HIV drugs for Africa or weight loss medications in 🇺🇸….but i didn’t see this level of dumb cruelty coming so quickly #publichealth 🩺 🌊 #voteblue

“lost patience” too much there not enough here © Rick Ehling ✍️ 02/28/2026 #senryu 🇺🇸 🗳️ 🕊️

dementia forgetting about a Peace Prize © Rick Ehling ✍️ 02/28/2026 #senryu 🇺🇸 🗳️ 🕊️

Hilltop in this case #RussianHill with a view of #alcatraz #SanFrancisco #lookingnorth #weekHforH #alphabetchallenge #scape #streetscape © 📷 12/14/2025 Rick Ehling

salt fat acid heat ?

yes i know…i’m heavy on the memes this week. what can i say, i feel like…

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state of the union just another commercial selling something you never wanted and certainly don’t buy © Rick Ehling ✍️ 02/24/2026 #tanka 🇺🇸

“One of his most compelling interview subjects, the neuroscientist Antonio Damasio, believes that feeling has been neglected because male scientists long considered it too “feminine” to seriously study.“ feeling, emotions —> consciousness

state of the union he gives himself another stellar review #vss365 #senryu

Hiking 🥾 the #LandsEndTrail in the #GGNRA #SanFrancisco #lookingeastnortheast #weekHforH #alphabetchallenge #ournationalparks © 📷 01/12/2026 Rick Ehling

“A better—and more achievable—goal would be to extend healthy longevity, adding life to years instead of years to life.” 🙏 amen to that.

cold mist fading snow drifting as fog © Rick Ehling ✍️ 02/22/2026 #dailyhaikuprompt (mist) #Haiku ❄️ 🌫️ 😶‍🌫️

…fast forwarding to the closing ceremony at the cabin

morning tea… i turn off Sunday’s talk shows before they seep in © Rick Ehling 02/17/2026 #senryusunday #senryu ☕️ 📺 🇺🇸

i’ve been to the small monuments left at Tule Lake and Manzanar, which are embarrassing next to the immigration station on Angel Island (and the ruins of its army barracks) and the barracks of Camp Roberts (driving 101) the camps were leveled quickly so we’d forget …and apparently repeat

(i) import tariffs those ships sailed away with your money (ii) tariff repeal duty refunded to other pockets (iii) tariff repeal still in the class paying © Rick Ehling ✍️ 02/20/2026 #senryu #tariffs #affordability three today don’t hold your breath for a refund 🇺🇸

let’s go fly a 🪁 #streetscape #weekGforGames #alphabetchallenge 📷 © Rick Ehling 12/12/2025 #Chinatown #SanFrancisco

go fish 🃏🐟🐠🐡 #art mosaic and fresco #museums #weekGforGames #alphabetchallenge 📷 © Rick Ehling 10/2024 #Rome 🇮🇹

heavy snow in Tahoe; here the rain is pausing for the first blue strands we’ve had in days briefly as it’s wet again this evening through tomorrow last night we had several bands of hail mixed into the atmospheric rivers pretty uncommon for San Francisco

#SFSidewalkHaiku #246 Allen hummingbirds seem early Even as Spring’s clocktower blooms © Rick Ehling ✍️ 02/15/2026, 📷 11/2025 #Haiku #hummingbirdsage #California 🌱 #BSPP50 (hover) both the sage and the bird are early (this same patch bloomed at Thanksgiving and as well)

this morning dance, a bevy quick stepping while pathed walls flower © Rick Ehling ✍️ 02/17/2026 #dailyhaikuprompt (quail) #venery #haiku 🥾

I really hope that translates into "The DHS is dead on arrival, then." The GOP giving the Dems the line of "The admin wants us to pick between the Constitution and the DHS" is one hell of a gift.

…the blight so poignantly detailed in “The Overstory” may finally be lifting #science 🧬 🌳 🌰 🇺🇸

Presidents Day he hasn’t succeeded in renaming it yet #senryu #voteblue 🇺🇸

Presidents’ day Deny him the singular possessive #senryu #voteblue 🇺🇸 🌊 #grammar #apostrophe

checkers anyone? a #NorthBeach sidewalk in late morning sun #streetscape #weekGforGames #alphabetchallenge 📷 © Rick Ehling 12/12/2025 #SanFrancisco

Pier 7 Golden Hour between storms #theEmbarcadero #SanFrancisco #TreasureIsland #lookingeast 📷 © Rick Ehling 01/28/2026 #weekFforFramed #alphabetchallenge

…you don’t say 🎁 🐢 🤦🏼‍♂️ #nature

for valentine’s #smallpoemsunday a bit of call and response @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

we rise early we tend, we clear, we clip pruning, harvesting squeezing sweet wine, vinegar we bottle both we rise © Rick Ehling ✍️ 02/14/2026 #dailyhaikuprompt (grapes) #tanka #bspp50

aside from everything else that is wrong here: how is it possible for a billionaire (or anyone or corporation) to own a “competing bridge” connecting two countries? and wasn’t Detroit bankrupt until recently? seems like a case for eminent domain #taxtherich #endprivatemonopolies 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 #michigan

Specialization Years learning, more and more About less and less © Rick Ehling ✍️ 02/2026 #senryusunday #senryu

Vaccination - If only one existed for Disinformation © Rick Ehling ✍️ 02/2025 #senryusunday #senryu 🩺 💉

spilt milk staring at distant galaxies in the night sky © Rick Ehling ✍️ 02/07/2026 #dailyhaikuprompt (milky way) #senryu #senryusunday

“I fold my towel with what grace I can, Not young, and not renewable, but man.” #thomaskinsella #february #reflection #poetry 

Even at five Surrounded by mazes in rowed corn Petula Clark was calling me Downtown ©️Rick Ehling ✍️ 01/25/2026 #tanka #tankaThursday (landscape) #poetry 🌾🌁 🌆 🌇 🏙️ 🌃 🌉 #you’regonnabealright #BSPP50 (nostalgia)

hot cold boricha just roasted grain, water and life ©️ Rick Ehling ✍️ 02/03/2026 #dailyhaikuprompt (barley) #Haiku #tea ☕️🧋🇰🇷

The owl hootless Leaves rustle Night stills Under Eucalyptus ©️ Rick Ehling ✍️ 02/02/2026 #dailyhaikuprompt (grove) 🦉🍂🌚 #California

“Nearly 2/3s of constituents (64%) in his Central Valley district — ~527,000 Californians — are enrolled in Medi-Cal, the state Medicaid program that provides health care coverage to low-income Americans and those with disabilities.” His budget bill vote should end his career #voteblue #California