Flash Cooking, Travel, Poetry and More

While hiking with my wife and son at the Picchetti Ranch Preserve in Cupertino on 6/13, spotted you with your beautiful golden hue on a nice sunny day – copa de ora in the sunshine state.

Catch the sunlight, catch it some more,

gleam, bask and a glow with furore,

sway bold, a pot of gold,

but eyes shut at the sight of night,

cloudy and cold too, you might.

Orange, yellow and a red gown,

four petals could calm me down,

lessen my worries,

and take away a frown.

In coastal bluffs and foot hills alike,

happy, wild and free to hike,

guide ships and many a soul,

light up the land,

my goal, my fate,

the flower of the sunshine state.

– Written by Sankalp Patnaik