the Golden Gate bridge on a crisp winter day. fog out at sea, not drawn in when land, sea, and air are all equally cold and the next storm front is days away
between storms here in #SanFrancisco
crisp, clean, and quiet
like after a snow, but a lot warmer
#winter #theGoldenGate #thePresidio #GGNRA #lookingnorthwest 🌉
📷 © Rick Ehling 01/12/2026
The Golden Gate Before you rises the Golden Gate Bridge, its deep orange towers glowing warmly against a crisp, cloudless blue sky. Sunlight glints off the steel cables, creating thin, shimmering lines that vibrate in the wind. Below, the bay churns with whitecaps—small, sharp bursts of foam that crackle like torn paper as the wind whips across the water. A ship glides beneath the bridge, its dark hull cutting a smooth path through the restless blue. The air smells of salt and cold metal, and the wind carries a low, distant hum from the bridge’s traffic. The entire scene feels both vast and intimate: the monumental sweep of the bridge contrasted with the delicate sparkle of winter light. It’s a moment suspended between stillness and motion, warmth and chill, human engineering and the raw energy of the Pacific.
The Golden Gate
A bright winter view of the Golden Gate Bridge, its orange towers rising over choppy blue water as a ship passes beneath, sunlight sharpening the cold, windy February scene.
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autumn comes to the Golden Gate
© Rick Ehling 📷 09/30/2025
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From USCF looking North, across the park to the Golden Gate Bridge and then Marin.
© Rick Ehling 📷 01/22/2025
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Looking back at the bay and the Golden Gate Bridge from Land’s End
© Rick Ehling 📷 01/05/2025
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The Marin coastline thru the cypress trees from Lincoln Park in San Francisco.
© Rick Ehling 📷 01/04/2025 #SkySunday #PointBonita #LincolnPark #SanFrancisco #Marin #theGoldenGate #California #leftcoast #westcoast #bestcoast #lookingnorth
Across SF, Golden Gate Park, the bridge, and then Marin, looking north, on a clearer day.
©️Rick Ehling 📷 12/02/2024 #SkySunday #silentsunday #goldengateheights #SanFrancisco #California #theGoldenGate #goldenhour #lookingnorth
The Golden Gate at Sunrise. From Tiburon.
© Rick Ehling 📷 07/03/2023 #SkySunday #silentsunday #fog #sunrise #lookingsouthwest #GoldenGateBridge #theGoldenGate #SFBay #SFBayArea #fromTiburon #California
“And Sunday always comes too late”
The American flag flying against blue Pacific sky over the Presidio, for all of us.
Last year’s poem for my Hallmark holiday series. If I write one today it will be more about strife than war. Still this is our holiday - all of ours - and if nothing else it means we’re done with god given kings and church courts.
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 2023📷 04/21/2024 🇺🇸 #JulyFourth #independenceday #happyjuly4th #thePresidio #theGoldenGate #SanFrancisco #California #poetry
Another 4th thinking about my father and how much he loved this holiday (perhaps only second to Thanksgiving?).
photo from the net, editted. A flag at half mast near the Golden Gate Bridge from the Presidio. Have a restful and reflective Memorial Day.

#MemorialDay
Remembering losses
Lessons yet to learn
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 05/14/2023, photo from the net. (I have no half mast photos). #Haiku #senryu #thePresidio #SanFrancisco #California #theGoldenGate #sacrifice #fallen #bloodandtreasure
A cloudless day at the Golden Gate and Pincushions rolling in the wind.

© Rick Ehling 📸📷 05/21/2024 🌱 #SkySunday #silentsunday #sundayyellow #notacloudinsight #lookingnorthwest #Presidio #PresidioNationalPark #GGNRA #theGoldenGate #GoldenGateBridge #tunneltops #pincushions #leucospermum #SanFrancisco #California #Marin #thePacific #awe #SouthAfrican
The Golden Gate Bridge peaks out between SF parks and the Marin Headlands below blue sky and clouds.

© 📸 📷 Rick Ehling 04/15/2024 #SkySunday #silentsunday #lookingnorth #theGoldenGate #GoldenGateBridge #MarinHeadlands #MtTamalpais #fromUCSF #SanFrancisco #California #leftcoast #westcoast #bestcoast 🌁🌉
