Feast of the Transfiguration (Apple-Blessing Feast), Azdamichy 2015. Перамяненьне Гасподняе (Яблычны Спас), Аздамічы 2015 год. Break in the (five-hour) service. Перапынак.
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Photos of the Day for November 8, 2015
Feast of the Transfiguration (Apple-Blessing Feast – Jablychny Spas), Azdamichy 2015. Перамяненьне Гасподняе (Яблычны Спас), Аздамічы 2015 год. Falling in the middle of the two-week Dormition fast, the feast of the Transfiguration, August 19 in the Orthodox calendar, subsumes the pre-Christian rite of blessing apples. In memory of children who have died young, people avoid… Continue reading Photos of the Day for November 8, 2015
Photo of the Day for November 7, 2015
Kalina (viburnum opulus). Каліна. Ой у лузі червона калина похилилася…
Photos of the Day for November 6, 2015
Grape-grower Mikalaj Amjal’chuk, Khorsk 2015. Вінаградар Мікалай Амяльчук, Хорск 2015 г. Mikalaj Amjal’chuk has spent more than a decade quietly disproving conventional wisdom that Belarus is too far north for serious cultivation of grapes. He currently tends more than 70 vines, representing more than a score of grape varieties, on his half-acre property in the… Continue reading Photos of the Day for November 6, 2015
Photos of the Day for November 5, 2015
Polesian cabbage from field to market. Столінская капуста з поля на рынак. Ready for harvest, Tsjerablichy 2015. Гатовая да збору, Цераблічы 2015 г. Cabbage harvest, Ramjel’-Al’shany road 2015. Збор капусты, дарога Рамель-Альшаны 2015 г. Cabbage from Vjalikaje Maljeshava at a neighborhood farmers’ market, Mjensk 2015. Капуста з Вялікага Малешава на фермерскім рынку, Менск 2015 г.
Photo of the Day for November 4, 2015
Apple and onion harvest, Tsjerablichy 2015. Ураджай, Цераблічы 2015 г.
Photo of the Day for November 3, 2015
Portraits of Tsjerablichy 2015: light in August. Партрэты Цераблічаў 2015 г.: Жнівеньскае асьвятленьне.
Photos of the Day for November 2, 2015
Portraits of Tsjerablichy: Mal’tsevich family. Партрэты Цераблічаў: сям’я Мальцэвічаў. I first met and photographed Ivan Mal’tsevich, the local school’s biology and geography teacher and a skilled small-holder farmer, as he sat with his twin sons Ivan and Dzjanis at the 2009 feast of the Holy Trinity in Azdamichy. Настаўнік і фермер Іван Мальцэвіч з сынамі-блізьнятамі… Continue reading Photos of the Day for November 2, 2015
Photo of the Day for November 1, 2015
Portraits of Tsjerablichy 2015: preparing beehives for winter. Партрэты Цераблічаў 2015 г.: падрыхтоўка вульлёў да зімы.
Photos of the Day for October 31, 2015
Portraits of Tsjerablichy 2015: neighborhood kids. Партрэты Цераблічаў 2015 г.: суседскія дзеці.