Month: August 2011

Belarusian Songfest, Vjazynka 2011.  Купальскія вакацыі, Вязынка 2011 год. See also photo for July 7, 2011.  Гл. таксама фотаздымак 07.07.2011 год.

Loading bobbins with homespun wool (part II).  Суканьне нітак (частка ІІ). To help Granny Vul’ljana with her summer weaving, her granddaughters took on the work of loading bobbins for the shuttle. Бабуля Вульляна зноў паснавала кросны, і яе ўнучкі распачалі працу – сукаюць ніткі, каб потым запраўляць чоўнік. Tsjerablichy 2011.  Цераблічы 2011 год.

Summer cabbage, Azdamichy 2011.  Улетку ў Аздамічах 2011 год.

Landscapes of Belarus (part XXI).  Краявіды Беларусі (частка ХХІ). Summer evening, Barsuki 2011.  Летны вечар, Барсукі 2011 год.

The Loom (part V).  Кросны (частка V). In early summer Granny Vul’ljana said she no longer had the strength to work full-time in the summer heat in the garden or in the family plots three kilometers away.  But refusing to remain idle even for a second, she once again set up her loom, which she… Continue reading Photo of the Day for August 27, 2011: The Loom V / Кросны V

Loading bobbins with homespun wool (part I).  Суканьне нітак (частка І). To help Granny Vul’ljana with her summer weaving, her granddaughters took on the work of loading bobbins for the shuttle.  Here Vjera shows her cousin Khrys’tsina how to load bobbins. Бабуля Вульляна зноў паснавала кросны, і яе ўнучкі распачалі працу – сукаюць ніткі, каб потым запраўляць чоўнік.… Continue reading Photo of the Day for August 26, 2011: Loading Bobbins I / Суканьне нітак І

Once again at the loom. In early summer Granny Vul’ljana said she no longer had the strength to work full-time in the summer heat in the garden or in the family plots three kilometers away.  But refusing to remain idle even for a second, she once again set up her loom, which she had put… Continue reading Photo of the Day for August 25, 2011: The Loom IV / Кросны IV

Belarus in Faces (II).  Беларусь у тварах (частка ІІ). Father Pavjel, Church of the Holy Trinity, Dunilavichy 2011.  Ксёндз Павел, касьцёл Найсьвяцейшай Тройцы, Дунілавічы 2011 год.

Apple season, Troshchytsy (Trashchychy) 2009.  Трошчыцы (Трашчычы) 2009 год.

Apple-Blessing Festival (part III), Azdamichy 2010/Яблычны Спас (частка III), Аздамічы 2010 год. Apple-Blessing, observed on August 19, Transfiguration Day in the Orthodox calendar, is an early harvest festival and falls during the middle of the Dormition fast.  In memory of children who have died young, women traditionally must not eat new apples or other newly-ripe… Continue reading Photo of the Day for August 22, 2011: Apple-Blessing Festival III / Яблычны Спас ІІI