Ann Tracy’s Waiting for the Muse

We had never heard of Ann Tracy before she was nom­i­nated within the last cou­ple of weeks. It is always easy for us to put off writ­ing reviews on The Ris­ing Blog­ger. Some­times it is because of our love and ded­i­ca­tion to our own whacked web­site. Writ­ing orig­i­nal humor has noth­ing in com­mon with humor sites that pub­lish jokes. Don’t mis­un­der­stand us we love those sites. It just about the use of our time. It takes time. We are glad we took time away from our bit of the blo­gos­phere to dis­cover Ann.

Ann is a unique tal­ent in the blo­gos­phere. Let’s start with a bit of her bio, “Ann’s fine art has been exhib­ited from Japan to Maui to New York City. In 2003 her work, “Stop” was included in the cat­a­log of the “Vio­lence Against Women”, Group 78 Amnesty Inter­na­tional, Tokyo, Japan. Ann spent 10 years as a radio and print jour­nal­ist in Den­ver, Mil­wau­kee, San Jose and Sacra­mento. She was the first female voice to grace the air­waves of KTLK, Den­ver in 1977.” Ann is a busy woman. We think it is because of her mul­ti­fac­eted resume that her blog is so well con­structed. She uses her art in pho­tog­ra­phy, paint and the dig­i­tal world of draw­ing with equal prowess. Her blog is called Ann Tracy’s Wait­ing for the Muse. Book­mark it.

Ann doesn’t sim­ply post her art or just share with her read­ers a story. She weaves both with the skill of a con­duc­tor. In her Post of the Day, Ann is on vaca­tion with her hus­band and dog in tow. She describes the story of their time away with the his­tory of what she sees. Throw in her ter­rific pho­tos and you have a ter­rific blog read­ing expe­ri­ence. She writes, “The city of LA has been suck­ing the lake dry until 1994, when con­cerned cit­i­zens actions stopped the city of the angels from get­ting any more water and fur­ther dam­ag­ing the frag­ile envi­ron­ment. I’ll have pho­tos of Mono Lake at my Flickr site so please click on that link for more pho­tos.” The post we awarded is titled Joshua National Park and My Left Arm. You’ll enjoy your trip with Ann. Well done, Ms. Tracy!

Review writ­ten by BUD WEISER.