Photos of the Day for September 30, 2017

Harvesting potatoes from the garden.  Tsjerablichy 2017. It is a deeply-engrained custom in Belarusian villages to plant potatoes on a significant portion of the garden around one’s house.  After photographing Vasil’ and his daughter Tats’tsjana at work, I put the camera aside and helped fill two bags’ worth. Пакуль спадар Васіль нясе поўны мяшок на… Continue reading Photos of the Day for September 30, 2017

Photos of the Day for September 29, 2017

Potato harvest from the family allotment, Tsjerablichy 2017. First cultivated in the Belarusian lands in the mid-18th century, the potato is now one of the most important elements in the Belarusian diet.  Families anxiously await the harvest, the quantity and quality of which to a huge degree will determine both how well a homestead makes… Continue reading Photos of the Day for September 29, 2017

Photos of the Day for September 28, 2017

Chasing butterflies, Vjeljamichy 2017. Some villages, by their setting and the nature of their inhabitants, always lead one into fables and beyond time.  Vjeljamichy is such a village.  As we took in the bucolic scenes along the shore of Lake Sijatsy under late August light, a little girl dashed into the pasture with a butterfly… Continue reading Photos of the Day for September 28, 2017

Photos of the Day for September 27, 2017

Portraits of Polesia, Orthodox feast of the Transfiguration (Apple-Blessing feast – Jablychny Spas), Azdamichy, August 19, 2017.  VIII/VIII Партрэты Палесься, Праабражэньне Гасподняе (Яблычны Спас), Аздамічы 2017 г.  VIII/VIII            

Photos of the Day for September 26, 2017

Portraits of Polesia, Orthodox feast of the Transfiguration (Apple-Blessing feast – Jablychny Spas), Azdamichy, August 19, 2017.  VII/VIII Партрэты Палесься, Праабражэньне Гасподняе (Яблычны Спас), Аздамічы 2017 г.  VII/VIII     A grandmother with her granddaughter, and with the same clear and steady gaze…   …as in 2009.             Natalja, a… Continue reading Photos of the Day for September 26, 2017

Photos of the Day for September 25, 2017

Orthodox feast of the Transfiguration (Apple-Blessing feast – Jablychny Spas), Azdamichy, August 19, 2017.  VI/VIII Blessing of apples in Azdamichy.  Father Aljaksandr makes three circuits of the churchyard, in turn censing the fruit, sprinkling the fruit with holy water, and then offering the cross for parishioners to kiss before they hurry to the cemetery to… Continue reading Photos of the Day for September 25, 2017

Photos of the Day for September 24, 2017

Orthodox feast of the Transfiguration (Apple-Blessing feast – Jablychny Spas), Azdamichy, August 19, 2017.  V/VIII After the blessing in Tsjerablichy I returned for the end of the service in Azdamichy and blessing of apples. Праабражэньне Гасподняе (Яблычны Спас), Аздамічы 2017 г.  V/VIII Пасьля асьвячэньня ў Цераблічах вярнуўся ў Аздамічы, каб прысутнічаць на канцы літургіі й… Continue reading Photos of the Day for September 24, 2017

Photos of the Day for September 23, 2017

Orthodox feast of the Transfiguration (Apple-Blessing feast – Jablychny Spas), Tsjerablichy, August 19, 2017.  IV/VIII Blessing of apples and other first fruits in Tsjerablichy.  Owing to the illness of parish priest Father Vital’, Father Mikalaj from Plotnitsa officiated. Праабражэньне Гасподняе (Яблычны Спас), Цераблічы 2017 г.  IV/VIII Асьвячэньне яблыкаў ды іншай садавіны ў Цераблічах.  З-за таго,… Continue reading Photos of the Day for September 23, 2017

Photos of the Day for September 22, 2017

Orthodox feast of the Transfiguration (Apple-Blessing feast – Jablychny Spas), Tsjerablichy, August 19, 2017.  III/VIII The break in the service in Azdamichy gave me the opportunity to drive to Tsjerablichy, where I found people in the churchyard waiting for the blessing of apples. Праабражэньне Гасподняе (Яблычны Спас), Цераблічы 2017 г.  III/VIII Падчас перапынку ў Аздамічах… Continue reading Photos of the Day for September 22, 2017

Photos of the Day for September 21, 2017

Orthodox feast of the Transfiguration (Apple-Blessing feast – Jablychny Spas), Azdamichy, August 19, 2017.  II/VIII Portraits during the break in the service. Праабражэньне Гасподняе (Яблычны Спас), Аздамічы 2017 г.  II/VIII Партрэты падчас перапынку.       After I took this photo… Пасьля таго, як здымаў спадарыняў на лаўцы…   …three of the ladies insisted that… Continue reading Photos of the Day for September 21, 2017