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Gin Getz
Gin Getz (born Virginia Tone) is a writer based out of the high mountains in southwestern Colorado. After full time mothering, she returned to her passion of writing two years ago. During that time, her poetry, essays and photography have been featured in The Willow Creek Journal, Creede Magazine, Horse & Rider Magazine, among others. She has recently completed her first full length manuscript, a memoir covering her own wild ride of life and her growing connection with nature and solitude. She is currently in Patagonia with her husband and dog to write the memoirs of another remarkable woman, Virginia Tice Neary Carrithers. She has lived coast to coast, and has settled for now on their remote, off-grid guest ranch far and away from town, telephone and traffic. Gin’s blog can be seen at www.GinGetz.com and her Colorado home site is www.lost-trail.com.
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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.
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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, a few chickens and a dozen good horses.
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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
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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.
September 9th, 2011 at 1:48 pm
Great blog! The photos are quite lovely…
December 5th, 2011 at 7:43 am
Fantastic blog! I can feel the call of the wild.
December 5th, 2011 at 6:57 pm
Thank you, David… I’m honored to have the chance to share with you.
January 19th, 2012 at 8:07 pm
Gin, I am following your exquisite blog, and look forward to reading your work … and I’m also dropping by to let you know that I have presented you with the Genuine Blogger award – congratulations, I hope you enjoy it. ~ Julie :)
January 20th, 2012 at 8:16 am
Thank you so much, Julie, for including me in this. I am honored and touched. Too often I hide in my own little world of words and images, and although I’m learning to share through the blog, I have yet to learn to reach out.
Seeing how much you have done, reaching, including, communicating, broadening horizons, is wonderful and inspiring. May I accept this award humbly as a reminder of opening my heart and mind (and computer connection) more to others.
August 21st, 2012 at 11:30 am
Oh! This soul-driven aging cowgirl has succumbed. What a blog for me! Many thanks.
September 30th, 2012 at 6:25 am
“Three old cats and a dozen good horses”…sounds like the title of a memoir to me.
September 30th, 2012 at 9:00 am
Love it! Thank you, Broadside. And really, titles can be the trickiest part ;)
September 30th, 2012 at 6:35 pm
Robinson Jeffers, that’s the first thing that came to mind when I saw your photograph. And you have that craft of writing and commitment to place. Awesome landscape. Profound, poetic, I’ll have to look around here before I make a fool of myself asking questions you’ve already answered. Remarkable body of work. Thank you.
September 30th, 2012 at 8:04 pm
Michael, Thank you for your kind words… and the reference. I am certain you could not say anything foolish here – I reserve that right and do a fine job of it. (If you do have time to look around, you’ll see…) I would really appreciate your feedback and suggestions when you have a chance.
October 1st, 2012 at 8:27 am
Your blog, your life, they are inspiring Gin..I’m following you :)
April 13th, 2013 at 10:32 pm
Well lookie there; I found you again! so good to read about your new adventures. Lovely!
April 15th, 2013 at 8:26 pm
Hi, I’ve nominated you for the Epically Awesome Award Of Epic Awesomeness following my nomination by “Charles Schnyder Photography”. Hope you can accept.
You can see your nomination on my WP Blog.
https://alienshores52.wordpress.com/2013/04/13/epic-awesome-award-nomination