Month: July 2012

Belarus in Faces (part LVII).  Беларусь у тварах (частка LVII). Name-day feast of the Holy Trinity, Church of the Holy Trinity, Azdamichy, June 5, 2012:  waiting for children’s communion.  Сьвяток Сьвятой Тройцы, царква Сьвятой Тройцы, Аздамічы 2012 год: прычасьце для дзяцей.

Evening Light in Polesia.  Вечарнае асьвятленьне ўвесну на Палесьсі. Machul’ 2012.  Мачуль 2012 год.

Interior Light (part XVIII).  Інтэр’ернае асьвятленьне (частка XVIII). Name day feast of Holy Trinity, Azdamichy, June 5, 2012.  Сьвяток Сьвятой Тройцы, Аздамічы 2012.

Trinity Sunday, Azdamichy, June 3, 2012 (part IV).  Сьвята Найсьвяцейшай Тройцы, Аздамічы 2012 год (частка IV).

Children’s Communion, Trinity Sunday, Azdamichy, June 3, 2012 (part III).  Прычасьце для дзяцей, сьвята Найсьвяцейшай Тройцы, Аздамічы 2012 (частка ІІІ). Families in the parish of the Holy Trinity in central Polesia consider the feast of Holy Trinity one of the two most important times of the year to have their children/grandchildren receive Holy Communion.

Sour cherries, just about ripe, Tsjerablichy 2012.  Сьпелыя ці нясьпелыя, а ўжо няма, Цераблічы 2012 год. Sour cherries ripen in early July in the central Pripet region of Belarus.  Then it’s always a race between the cherry pickers and the starlings to see who will get to the cherries first.

Waiting for the cows, Tsjerablichy 2012.  Пакуль каровы ідуць дадому, Цераблічы 2012 год. Owning a cow means the work day begins at or before dawn and ends after sunset:  milking twice a day, feeding, mucking out.  Yet given the importance of milk and milk products in the Belarusian diet, every village household that can keep… Continue reading Photo of the Day for July 15, 2012

Anointing with holy oil, Trinity Sunday, Azdamichy, June 3, 2012 (part II).  Мірапамазаньне, сьвята Найсьвяцейшай Тройцы, Аздамічы 2012 год (частка ІІ).

Trinity Sunday, Azdamichy, June 3, 2012 (part I).  Тройца, Аздамічы 2012 год (частка І). In the Orthodox liturgical calendar Trinity and Pentecost are celebrated on the same Sunday, seven weeks after Orthodox Easter, thus June 3 in 2012.  The central Polesian parish of the Holy Trinity in Azdamichy  and Tsjerablichy celebrates its annual name-day feast… Continue reading Photos of the Day for July 13, 2012: Trinity Sunday І / Тройца І

Happy 86th birthday to Granddad Ivan, born July 12, 1926.  Many happy returns and best wishes for continued strength and good health. With dignity and a laconic manner Granddad Ivan insists on working every day as he has done —  often in the past in conditions of stark deprivation — for 80 plus years.  He… Continue reading Photo of the Day for July 12, 2012