John Muir Trail

Just wanted to post this picture of Nan, Mike and myself at the junction of the John Muir trail in Kings Canyon NP. It was a sentinal event for me as I had been reading about and wanting to hike on the JMT for several years now. One day my plan is to hike the entire trail from Yosemite to Mt. Whitney. If any other Somers are interested, let me know because it will take a couple years of planning and getting ready. The trail is approximately 220 miles and goes through the most spectacular alpine scenery in the world. It shares many miles with the PCT (Pacific Crest Trail) which runs from Mexico to Cananda through CA, OR, WA; it is about 2500 miles or so. I don't really have any desire to spend 5 months hiking the PCT, but I think I can do the JMT in three weeks.

Music we are listening to

We recently discovered Matt Pond PA and are really enjoying this adult alternative music style. His melancholy innovations have classical undertones and very easy to listen to. I haven't delved into the words yet but will get the cover out one of these days and follow along.

http://www.mattpondpa.com/

The other great musical treatise we have put on repeatedly is the new Santana "All that I am". Is this guy spectacular or what? He is really an inspiration to musical artists. He has to be one of the greatest guitarists of all time. His recent collaborations seem to represent the best of how music performance can be shared as well as with consumers. I never seem to tire of Santana's last three albums. Michelle Branch does another great job on her collaborative song too. I may have to look into purchasing one of her CDs.

http://www.santana.com/

What are the rest of you listening too? Maren came home at Thanksgiving and was listening to Pink Floyd! Quality music is timeless - hey?

OK - time to go cut some brush and get the bush hog out one more time before winter really puts an end to this type of work!

Members

I'm eating Mom's vegan pumpkin pie for breakfast, man is it good...

Anyway, Dad asked if I was going to invite *ALL* the Somers family to the blog. The only other member I invited was Mike. I pondered over inviting extended family, but I don't have any other Somers email address! So Dad, I made you (and Mom) admin, so you have full capabilities.

Invite away!

If you want help with HTML if you want to change things like the template, just let me know.

Maren

Testing - pictures?

Ok - now I see the control panel - didn't find it with previous test. Here goes.

Seems to work. Let's mess with some fonts....

Bold

Italics

Color changes

Some colors not so visible

How about this darker red...not bad.

Add to note after published? Let's try....

As you might have guessed - I am playing with the blog editor. I downloaded the plugin for Word, but it won't let you upload pictures, so I probably won't use it. I want to be able to put up a pic or two when I blog. As the aphorism says - a picture is worth a thousand words! I hope this turns out to be a productive and intersting forum.

Maren - I invited some of the other Somers family members - not sure I have e-mail addresses for all of them. If any other Somers join, they can tell you and have you invite them. Hear that Somers family? Maren is running this blog for now so send her your suggestions for invites to other Somers family members. I know I don't have an e-mail address for Marty although I suspect he has half a dozen or more!

OK - I'm signing off - Nan and I are going to the Yellow Moon Cafe in Cobden to listen to Shady Mix play....blog you later.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Hey guys -

Well we're a family in a globalized world: separated by land, brought together through technology.

Since we don't get to meet very often, I thought we could share thoughts, news, and a little bit more of our lives this way.

What do you think?

~The daughter.