About

(Update: This picture is now several years old, and I swear, now there’s no mistaking the greying hair and wrinkles. I’m one of those who feels I’ve earned them, and wear them with pride.  Or stubbornness.)

About person and place

For now, I am here.

Where will you find me tomorrow?

Together with this mountain, another mountain, a wide river, a hidden brook.

My work is inspired by the wild, remote and natural world around me, touching me, allowing me to touch.

A bit about my work

My essays and photography have been featured in each issue of Creede Magazine for the past several years, as well as providing photography annually for the Creede Calendar. Other work (poetry, photography, and articles) has appeared in Horse & Rider Magazine, Willow Creek Journal, and Colorado Snow Scoop, among other small, local publications. I have recently completed my first full length manuscript.

About me

I cannot say who I am without mentioning my family and the wild world I live in.

It is the relationship of these parts that makes me whole but ever-changing.

So, here I am.  Back at our remote, high mountain, off grid ranch in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado about an hour from the nearest towns of Creede and Lake City.  I have an amazing, talented, soft spoken mountain man of a husband who reads all my work and always tells me, “It’s nice,” and an awesome son, who was the point and purpose of my life for the past nineteen years, a writer in his own right (more published than me!), who is now pursuing his own education and dreams near the mountains of British Columbia.  You probably won’t find me without my dog, Gunnar, a rather rambunctious two year old.  Otherwise, my menagerie is down to three old cats and a dozen good horses.

And about this blog

Thank you for joining me here. 

This site is my sounding board.  A place and space to experiment with both words and images.  This work here is not meant to be the final product.  It is an ongoing process, as is life, of growth and change. This blog allows me the opportunity to share and receive feedback.

Please let me know what you think about the writing, photography, stories and this site… and about yourself. I enjoy hearing about you and your stories as well.

All writings and images are the copywrite and property of me (though I’d like to give my husband, Bob, and son, Forrest, credit for several photos and lots of the inspiration). Written permission must be obtained to reuse or reprint anything from this site.

Your comments and feedback are truly appreciated. You can subscribe to updated posts using the link below, and/or leave comments at the bottom of every page and post.

I hope you enjoy your time here.

Warmly,
Gin

Gin’s first blog, High Mountain Muse, a literary blog on nature, solitude and the search for serenity, can still be viewed on line.

Gin’s Colorado ranch can be viewed at Lost Trail Ranch.