Month: October 2010

Portraits of Mjensk V/Партрэты Менску (частка V) Gorki Park, Mjensk 2008/Парк Горкага, Менск 2008 год

The Extraordinary in the “Ordinary” IX.  Надзвычайнае ў “звычайным“ (частка IX). Everything in its place:  the end of the harvest season and feast of Pakrou.  Усё на сваім месцы. Belarusians across their homeland work diligently to complete the harvest and to prepare their gardens and fields for winter by the Orthodox feast of Pakrou (see… Continue reading Photo of the Day for October 30, 2010: The Extraordinary in the “Ordinary” IX

Autumn bounty, Machul’ 2010.  Мачуль 2010 год.

Portraits of Mjensk IV/Партрэты Менску (частка IV)

Remembering Summer, Rubjel’ 2010/Лета, Рубель 2010 год

Women of Polesia (VI)/Паляшучкі (частка VI) Tsjerablichy 2010/Цераблічы 2010 год

Village-Limit Sign for the Village of Aktsjabr 2007/Акцябр 2007 Акцябр (“Aktsjabr”) is a made-up Belarusian version of the Russian word for October, short-hand for the Bolsheviks’ 1917 “Great October Socialist Revolution”.  The Belarusian word for October is кастрычнік (Kastrychnik).

Dudy 2010/Дуды 2010 год

Smaljany 2010/Смаляны 2010 год

Women of Polesia V/Паляшучкі (частка V) Dubrova 2010/Дуброва 2010 год