A rose bush swallowing a house, I’ve seen this in the woods in NJ, and abandoned farms, and now on Bernal Heights hill

#SFSidewalkHaiku #250
Wild waits
for us to tire of clipping
Untamed
© Rick Ehling ✍🏼 04/09/2026 📷 04/03/2026 🌱🥀
#dailyhaikuprompt (blossoms) #haikusaturday #senryu #BernalHeights #SanFrancisco

Old fashioned roses twinning in our hot sun After an unusual “April shower”, everything is blooming with force, racing June’s dry and the brown gold hills that follow.

#SFSidewalkHaiku #249
California
Here soft petaled Spring hits hard
Racing summer’s sun
© Rick Ehling ✍🏼 04/04/2026, 📷 04/03/2026

🌹 🌱 🚶🏼 #SanFrancisco #BernalHeights #haiku #haikusaturday
and in a few days Spring was everywhere here, especially after an atypical April shower, hot and hurried 

the California poppies are out. Mostly in warm pockets but more every day.

#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

first the smell, then the itch and flowers, mock orange i know when it’s spring here, my itchy eyes tell me

#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

hummingbird sage, a california native of the chaparral, showing up early in a dry spell between storms

#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)

cactus flowering in later autumn here in SF

#SFSidewalkHaiku #245
in this fading
scratch of daylight
cactus flowers
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 01/26/2026 📷 10/26/2025
🌼 🌵 🌱 🍂 #Haiku #haikusaturday #NoeValley

a plum tree flowering, a few weeks early it has been cold this week here in SF but quite sunny after a strong atmospheric river dumped over a months rain in one weekend

#SFSidewalkHaiku #244
winter cold
yet there still healing
plum blossoms
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 01/25/2026, 📷 01/25/2026
❄️ ❤️‍🩹 🌸 🌱 early yet so needed #earthprovides #NoeValley #SanFrancisco #haiku #3lines

sun on a building, red lanterns, blue sky a slow december walk through chinatown, north beach and the bay with stops along the way for bao, pantry items, poetry, and pressed panini and beer

#SFSidewalkHaiku #245
Winter sky, cold blue
and crisp Scented with five spice,
tea, and lacquered duck
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 12/13/2025🏮🌁 ❄️
#haikusaturday #Haiku
#favoritethings #blueskyartshow 🍜 🚶📷 12/12/2025

white petals (and red berries) that’s coastal California’s winter

#SFSidewalkHaiku #244
To the north snowfall
But a whisper here
Petals falling
©️ Rick Ehling ✍️ 12/06/2025
📷 04/13/2025 🌱 Mexican Orange Blossom
#dailyhaikuprompt (north) #Haiku

a neighbor’s camellia, starting it’s december show, no bows or lights required

#SFSidewalkHaiku #243
in december sun
camellia shows us nature
cares not for naming
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 12/06/2025, 📷 11/28

#haikusaturday #Haiku #senryu ❄️ 🌹 🌱
“a rose by any other name…”

winter berries, here a type of hawthorn, for hungry beaks chasing the sun south nature taking care of migrants

#SFSidewalkHaiku # 242
Each berry a gift,
a jewel, fuel Nature
provides for migrants
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 12/04/2025 📷 12/01
#Haiku #redberries #hawthorn 🌱 🪶 #migration #advent

#africanmallow (like the honey badger) doesn’t care if it’s autumn

#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

our recent heat wave brought out the day lilies, briefly no snow here, but they won’t like the cold rain much either

#SFSidewalkHaiku #240
Autumn dawn perhaps
sweeter in brief crisp light
Til snow, still blooming
©️Rick Ehling ✍️ 11/10/2025
#dailyhaikuprompt (first snow) #Haiku 🌱 🌧️ 🍂 🌨️

the last hydrangea have started their molt to gray and tan, no snow here but they must be dusted back East

#SFSidewalkHaiku #239
fading autumn
blue hydrangea graying
into snowballs
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 11/11/2025, 📷 10/26

#dailyhaikuprompt (fading) #Haiku 🍂❄️ #SanFrancisco

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

#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

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

#SFSidewalkHaiku #237
November flowers
Reflecting sunlight
Signaling change
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 11/04/2025, 📷 11/03/2025
#Haiku 🌱 #treemarigold 🇺🇸 #itsmorningagaininAmerica #California

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.

#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

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.

#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

Cassia, a fall bloomer here, and a pretty common sidewalk tree

#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 🍂

an autumn poppy still going strong

#SFSidewalkHaiku #233
october’s sunset
with poppies still answering
setting seeds for Spring

© Rick Ehling ✍️ 10/06/2025 📷 09/15 🌱 #California
#dailyhaikuprompt (seedlings) #Haiku

North American Blanket Flower putting on its October show

#SFSidewalkHaiku #232
In the falling leaves
In sooner fading sunsets
Flowers taking notes
©️ Rick Ehling ✍️ 10/01/2025 📷 09/30/2025
#Haiku 🍂 #autumn 🌱🌻 #blanketflower

a scented geranium happily sidewalked

#SFSidewalkHaiku #231
who would imagine
hot pink blooms
smelling of vanilla
© Rick Ehling ✍️📷 09/15/2025 🌱🚶🍨

#haikusaturday #Haiku
#BernalHeights #SanFrancisco #California

Hybridized and naturalized, bedded or an escapee snapdragons need little and show a lot. Here a yellow bloom jets from the shadow

#SFSidewalkHaiku #230
given but shadow,
a crevice, a cracked wall still
they spiral skyward
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 08/02/2025, 📷 04/13/2025 🌱 #snapdragon

Lilies of the Nile, in white, Agapanthus loves a tight corner here in San Francisco where our climate mirrors it’s home

#SFSidewalkHaiku #229
After the fireworks
Agapanthus continues
it’s summer sparkling
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 07/15/2025 📷 07/05/2025
#dailyhaikuprompt (fireworks) #Haiku 🌱 #agapanthus #SanFrancisco #TiffanyStreet #LaLengua

A street dahlia (for me the best dahlia as they drink a lot and are heavy feeders), I’m more of a set and forget gardener at the moment

#SFSidewalkHaiku #228
wonder
what dahlias tell
in their showing
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 07/12/2025 🌱 #senryu #senryusunday #poetry

A sea of lavender, in Northern California at Stanford Medical School

#SFSidewalkHaiku #227
in this sea of scent
and bees, calm but never still
a planet buzzing
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 07/05/2025 📷 06/05/2025
🌱 #Stanford #California
#dailyhaikuprompt (sea) #Haiku

Daylilies, a bit of containered magic in the hard California sun

Daylilies, nature’s 🧨

#SFSidewalkHaiku #226
who needs fireworks
with daylilies exploding
quietly all day
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 07/05/2025 📷 06/05/2025 🌱 #senryu #haikusaturday #saturdayhaiku #Stanford #California

and a much needed timeline cleanse…please excuse the outrage

Red lilies seem more of the moment. Tended for a year for their summer show

Red lilies in agricultural containers

#SFSidewalkHaiku #225
In the planning, in
the seeds Prepping, watering,
fertilizing Peace
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 📷 06/05/2025 🌱🕊️ #Stanford #California
#dailyhaikuprompt (garden, peace) #Haiku

Flowering maple leaves, the color variation is due to a virus

#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

Shasta daisies fighting the sun for attention

Shasta daisies giving

#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