Photo of the Day for July 1, 2011: The Bench VII / Лаўка VII

The Bench VII.  Лаўка (частка VII). What can seem more prosaic than the plain wooden bench in front of almost every village house in Belarus?  And yet the bench is the pivot of social life, the gathering place of generations on a summer’s eve, the village agora, the permanent observation post.  The bench is the… Continue reading Photo of the Day for July 1, 2011: The Bench VII / Лаўка VII