Month: June 2014

Children’s communion, feast of the Resurrection (Easter Tuesday), Al’homjel’ 2014. Hard-working, protective, guiding.  Yet ever graceful and always in their proper place.  I think Belarusian hands reveal most eloquently Belarusans’ distinctive and instinctive traditions and attachment to place. Дзіцячае прычасьце, сьвяток Уваскрашэньня, Альгомель 2014 год. Працавітыя, абараняльныя, ды навучальныя але абавязкова зграбныя, дбайныя, і, як… Continue reading Photo of the Day for June 20, 2014

Belarus in Faces (part CXXXVIII):  pals, feast of the Resurrection, Al’homjel’ 2014. Беларусь у тварах (частка CXXXVIII):  мужычкі, сьвята Ўваскрашэньня, Альгомель 2014 год.

Early morning on the Feast of the Resurrection (Easter Tuesday), Al’homjel’ 2014.  The day dawned unusually foggy for mid-April and spider webs caught the dew in crystalline chains. Уваскрашэньня, Альгомель 2014 год.

In commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the death of Home Army officer Jan Piwnik (“Ponury”). Jan Piwnik was a member of the “Sight Unseen” (“Cichociemni” in Polish).  The “Sight Unseen” were special-operations Polish paratroopers organized in Great Britain; more than 300 were dropped from 1941-1944 into occupied Poland — including the part of Belarus… Continue reading Photos of the Day for June 16, 2014

To commemorate the feast of Holy Trinity (June 15, 2014 in the Roman Catholic and Protestant calendar).  The beautiful late 16th-century church in Charnauchytsy, near Bjares’tsje (Brest) in western Belarus, celebrates both its parish feast day and first communion on Trinity Sunday. З нагоды сьвяты Сьвятой Тройцы (15-а чэрвеня 2014 г. у рыма-каталіцкім і пратэстанцкім… Continue reading Photos of the Day for June 15, 2014

To commemorate the feast of Holy Trinity (June 15, 2014 in the Roman Catholic and Protestant calendar).  The church in Charnauchytsy, near Bjares’tsje (Brest) in western Belarus, celebrates both its parish feast day and first communion on Trinity Sunday. З нагоды сьвяты Сьвятой Тройцы (15-а чэрвеня 2014 г. у рыма-каталіцкім і пратэстанцкім каляндару).  Парафія сьвяткуе… Continue reading Photos of the Day for June 14, 2014

Spider web on an April early morning, Tsjerablichy 2014.  April 22 dawned in fog, unusual for spring and more evocative of autumn, leaving spider webs bejeweled with dew. Павуціньне красавіцкім досьвідкам, Цераблічы 2014 год.

Kitchen Still-Life, Tsjerablichy 2014.  Нацюрморт у кухні, Цераблічы 2014 год.

The Bench (part XII):  waiting for Easter Day guests.  It is the tradition in Tsjerablichy to celebrate Easter for three days, during which time people expect visits from family and neighbors. Лаўка (частка ХІІ):  Вялікдзень:  госьці на парозе. Tsjerablichy 2014.  Цераблічы 2014 год.