Month: May 2017

Photo of the Day for May 7, 2017

Apricot blossoms, Tsjerablichy 2017. Despite repeated cold waves throughout April, some apricot trees in Tsjerablichy resisted the rain and frosts and kept their blossoms. Абрыкос у росквіту, Цераблічы 2017 г.    

Photo of the Day for May 6, 2017

To commemorate Orthodox St. George’s Day.  Belarus in Faces (part CCXVIII):  Poet and Photographer Georgij Likhtarovich, Mjensk 2016.  З нагоды Юр’я.  Беларусь у тварах (частка CCXVIII):  Георгій Ліхтаровіч, Менск 2016 г.  

Photos of the Day for May 5, 2017

Belarus in Faces (part CCXVII):  Granny Anastasia, Ordzjevichy 2017. On one of the few warmish, sunny days in April, I made a return photo-expedition to the border between Ashmjany and Smarhon’ Districts northwest of Mjensk.  Stopping to re-photograph houses in the small village of Ordzjevichy (see photo of the day for October 30, 2016), I… Continue reading Photos of the Day for May 5, 2017

Photo of the Day for May 4, 2017

The bench (part XVI):  spring evening conversation.  Azdamichy 2014. 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… Continue reading Photo of the Day for May 4, 2017

Photo of the Day for May 2, 2017

Polesian spring:  new plastic sheeting for the cucumber hothouse.  Tsjerablichy 2016. Палеская вясна:  новая плёнка для парніку.  Цераблічы 2016 г.