Photo of the Day for November 26, 2011
Honoring the great European writer Uladzimir Karatkevich (November 26, 1930 – July 25, 1984).
Паклон вялікаму эўрапейскаму пісьменніку Уладзіміру Караткевічу (26 лістапада 1934 – 25 ліпеня 1984).
Poet, prose writer, essayist and playwright, Uladzimir Karatkevich was a leading voice of the Belarusian national revival during the wilderness years of the mid-1950s to mid-1980s. His tone — lyrical and yet stoic — and the way his language embraces the simple beauty of the Belarusian countryside evoke the dignity, resilience and quiet determination of the Belarusian nation. In this regard the rose hips in this photo recall his poem “The Rose Hips and the Rose” (“Шыпшына і ружа“) and the oak tree in the left background his story “The Tree of Eternity” (“Дрэва вечнасьці“).
Photo of the Day for November 23, 2011
Oak Grove (part III), Panjamon’ 2009. Дуброва (частка ІII), Панямонь 2009 год.
Panjamon’ is a quiet village straddling the River Neman (Njoman – Нёман) in the middle of the Nalibaki Woodland (Налібоцкая пушча) in west-central Belarus. The woodland retains traces of its former primaeval-forest nature, including scattered oak groves, despite the effects of Soviet “amelioration” through drainage of most of the area’s marshes. This oak grove is enchanted at all times of the year: in the crisp light of autumn as the leaves and acorns fall, in winter blanketed by snow, or in spring after the dozen or so pairs of stork have returned to their venerable nests.
Дуброва, чароўна-зачараваная і ў крамяным асьвятленьні восені, калі падаюць лісты і жалуды, і пад сьнежнай коўдрай, і ўвесну, калі ў свае спрадвечныя бусьлянкі вяртаюцца тузін птушыных пар.