© Rick Ehling 📷 05/26/2024 🌱🌿🚶🌇 #SundayYellow #laidleystreet #GlenPark #NoeValley #SanFrancisco #California. Look at that yoke. #FriedEggPlant #MatilijaPoppy #californianativeplant An import here in the North, still happy. The seeds require flash heat or wildfires to germinate.


#SFSidewalkHaiku #142
Pride well earned
Really What more
need be said
© Rick Ehling 04/03/2024, 📷s 03/28/2024. #PrideofMadeira #NoeValley #GlenPark #SanFrancisco #California #spring 🌱🚶🌇
Echium candicans, native to #Madeira and happy in our #Mediterranean climate in the #SFBayArea.

© Rick Ehling 📷 05/12/2024 #sundayyellow #yellowlupine 🌿🌱🚶🌇 #NoeValley #SanFrancisco #California #urbansuperbloom #bloomscrolling. Not sure, but likely Pale Yellow #Lupine, which is native, but not a coastal plant, with Farewell to Spring behind her.
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

#SFSidewalkHaiku #140
#Plum cheering on #Spring
Pom poms toppling, towers to
confetti-d climax
©️ Rick Ehling ✍️ 05/18/2024, 📷 04/30/2024. #NoeValley #SanFrancisco #California #Haiku 🌱🚶🌇 #trees #ornamentalplum

#SFSidewalkHaiku #139
Crab apples chiming
Keep your church bells We’ve got
this In breezy #May
© Rick Ehling ✍️05/02/2024, 📷 04/29/2024. 🌱🍎 #NoeValley #SanFrancisco #California #crabapple #blossoms #AndrewsSisters 🚶🌇 #Haiku
www.youtube.com/watch?v=00hm...

#SFSidewalkHaiku #138
From ground they rise in
showy sight To mimic birds
In clustering flight
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 04/27/2024, 📷04/22/2024 🌱🚶🌇 #SanFrancisco #NoeValley #California #Alstroemeria #PeruvianLily #haiku
Flora’s hummingbirds floating and bobbing over the sidewalked cement.
#SFSidewalkHaiku #137
Leaf to flower to
fruit Earth’s passage sung in
tree’s seasoned turn
© Rick Ehling ✍️05/10/2024, 📷 04/08/2024
#NoeValley #SanFrancisco #California #haiku #spring #bloomscrolling 🌱🚶🌇 #Photinia


©️ Rick Ehling 📷 05/05/2024. #FernleafYarrow 🌱 #sundayyellow #NoeValley #SanFrancisco #California #yarrow #Asia #yarrow #xeriscape Not native but pretty amazing in this xeriscaped sidewalk garden.

#SFSidewalkHaiku #136
Petaled pepper in
every orange imagined
Tender, tenacious
© Rick Ehling ✍️, 📷 04/27/2024.
#Nasturtium #saturdayorange 🌱🍽️🍜 #NoeValley #SanFrancisco #California #eatyourweeds #herbs #haiku
My backyard garden is blessed with self seeding edible
Nasturtiums.

#SFSidewalkHaiku #133
Bees buzz Laboring
Share blooms with us Flavoring
potatoes roasting
© Rick Ehling ✍️ 04/24/2024, 📷 03/10/2024 #Rosemary #NoeValley #SanFrancisco #California 🌱🍽️🍜
Most of my cooking centers around the herbs that I grow in my yard. #polyphenols

©️📸 📷Rick Ehling #californiapoppy #poppy #bloomscrolling #californianativeplant #saturdayorange #NoeValley #SanFrancisco #California #spring #peakbloom #urbanhiking 🌱 🚶🌇 🌿
Our famous #NoeValley neighborhood toilet is in the news again!
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
The Noe Valley bathroom, which made international headlines after the price tag was revealed in 2022, ended up costing the city about $200,000.
www.sfchronicle.com