retinal perspectives

just in case you missed it, i've moved!

just in case you missed it, i am popping in to remind you that i moved.

i have a new online home at elizabethhalt.com and i do hope you will come visit.

i am looking forward to welcoming you.

i'm moving

i have so much love for this space and for all my years here.

and - i am excited and delighted to announce that i am moving.

i have a new online home at elizabethhalt.com and i hope you will come visit.

i cannot wait to welcome you there.

hello, goodbye

there is much excitement in the elizabeth & atlas house.

early tomorrow morning, i am setting out on an adventure. my youngest sister is studying in spain this semester and i am off to spend her spring break with her.

as a bonus, i am going to turn 35 years old in morocco! with that beginning, i am pretty sure that 35 is going to be the best year ever.

i will be back on the 20th - with lots of photos, i suspect.

(speaking of photos, did you know that if you buy a spare camera battery and it sits in the box for four plus years without use, when you happen upon it and are excited to take it on an adventure with you and go to charge it in preparation for the trip, you will discover that it doesn't work? i feel rather sad that my poor battery expired without ever getting to do the thing for which it was created.)

my blog will be quiet while i am gone, so i am leaving you with three things:

a picture of atlas, who will be having a jolly time at the doggy ranch;

a rather silly story about a hippopotamus named humphrey;

Humphrey

and a sneak peek of my brand new website, which i adore and will introduce sometime after i return. it's from the lovely allie of allie creative, who is a design genius.

until i return, may your april be full of sunshine and flowers.

a reminder that the birthday celebration sale ends on the 25th

there is a post about the peculiar shame of loneliness and my related need for connection wandering around my mind, but it needs to percolate for a day or two.

in the meantime, i am popping in to remind you that the birthday celebration sale in my etsy shop will end on march 25th. enter the coupon code ATLASIS9 at checkout for 18% off your entire purchase. once the celebration ends, the shop will close for most of april.

if you are wanting or needing a dose of beauty, or have had your eye on something in my shop for a while now, do go visit!

the dawning of the light, volume 11

{a photo project honoring radiance, one of my words for 2012 :: 52 photos that represent radiance, 52 photos that represent luminosity.}

another picture that makes me think of both radiance and luminosity.

p.s. i was closing registration for the secret garden earlier today, when i decided that i loved the card set for the circle of aqua so much that i wanted more people to have it. so, just for fun, i am leaving registration for the circle of aqua open through monday. if you were interested in it, there are a few more spaces available, and you have a few extra days to decide. maybe you want your year to be full of happy surprise, delight, and gleeful anticipation too!

i hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited

happy monday! i do love mondays. they're such a nice fresh clean slate sort of day. even though i have let go of most of my "i'll start on monday" patterns, i still love the newness of monday. i suspect that will never change.

do you remember when i introduced the secret garden? something (or somethings) you love plus a year of happy surprise, delight, and gleeful anticipation? there are still a few spots left and, in case you are thinking about it, i want to remind you that registration will close on march 15th. that's this thursday. (it's also atlas' birthday!) i just got the photos that i am using to make the card set for {the circle of aqua} and i cannot stop looking at them and smiling. they are magical.

this past week was very full of sunshine. on a walk on thursday and a hike on friday, i did not even need to wear a jacket! i am the sort of person who is still wearing a jacket when the rest of portland is wandering about in shorts and a t-shirt, so clearly it was warm. i celebrated with gelato.

i hope your monday includes birdsong and unexpected magic.

(title courtesy of adele)

it's a birthday celebration sale!

atlas will be 9 next week, and i will be 35 next month. wheeeeeeeee!

to celebrate, i am having a birthday celebration sale in my etsy shop. enter the coupon code ATLASIS9 at checkout for 18% off your entire purchase. good through march 25th.

there are lots of cards, and i added some of my favorite prints.

if you are wanting or needing a dose of beauty, or have had your eye on something in my shop for a while now, do go visit!

the shop will then be closed for most of april.

once upon a time

today is rather rainy, so it feels like a good day for a couple of announcements.

there is a new print in my etsy shop, titled {once upon a time}. it will be available through march. for the curious, the picture was taken in cusco, peru, in 2007. i almost deleted the picture immediately after taking it, thinking that i didn't really like it at all. that makes me laugh to remember because an 11x14 version of it is hanging in my dining room and it is still one of my most favorite photos ever.

there is still room available in the secret garden - my way of filling your year with happy surprise, delight, and gleeful anticipation. the people already in the garden are so lovely. i am beaming with delight and appreciation myself.

that's all for now.

happy monday, dear readers!

the dawning of the light, volume 6

{a photo project honoring radiance, one of my words for 2012 :: 52 photos that represent radiance, 52 photos that represent luminosity.}

people!

i have to tell you a secret because i am so very excited about it.

the plan, for a while now, has been that retinal perspectives will have a lovely new web home this year, likely toward the end of april.

and!

the thing i know now - which i discovered over the weekend, thankfully just in time to tell the designer before she started work - is that my business and web site will no longer use the name retinal perspectives.

it turns out that i am going to use my own name.

i am going to be ..

insert drumroll please ..

elizabeth halt :: the girl with the kaleidoscope eyes.

i am so in love with my new idea that i could just burst.

(that being said, i am still very fond of the name retinal perspectives, so it might remain in some form or fashion, at least for a while.)

an invitation to surprise, delight, and anticipation

do you know the feeling of happy surprise and delight and gleeful anticipation that you get when you are waiting for something you love to arrive?

i love that feeling.

the thing i don't love about that feeling is that it ends.

secretly, i have been working on a way to keep that feeling going all year. and now it's ready.

i am happy to introduce you to my newest offering: the secret garden, a 2012 patron program for retinal perspectives.

i won't try to explain it further here - there's already a whole page for that - but i do hope you like it.

visit the secret garden.