Photo of the Day for March 3, 2012: Interior Light XIII / Інтэр’ернае асьвятленьне ХІІІ

Interior Light (part XIII): Granny Eufrasin’nja’s Kitchen.  Інтэр’ернае асьвятленьне (частка ХІІІ): кухня бабулі Эўфрасіньні. There is something deeply comforting in the natural light that suffuses a Belarusian home.  This is a light as ineffable and timeless as it is bound to place and season. Сонечнае сьвятло напаўняе беларускі дом і робіць яго невымоўна ўтульным.  … Continue reading Photo of the Day for March 3, 2012: Interior Light XIII / Інтэр’ернае асьвятленьне ХІІІ

Photo of the Day for March 1, 2012: Hands XIV / Рукі XIV

The Extraordinary in the “Ordinary”:  Hands (part XIV).  Надзвычайнае ў “звычайным“:  рукі (частка XIV). Hard-working, protective, guiding.  Yet ever graceful and always in their proper place.  I think Belarusan hands reveal most eloquently Belarusans’ distinctive and instinctive traditions and attachment to place. Працавітыя, абараняльныя, ды навучальныя але абавязкова зграбныя, дбайныя, і, як заўсёды, складзеныя належным… Continue reading Photo of the Day for March 1, 2012: Hands XIV / Рукі XIV

Photo of the Day for February 28, 2012: Churches of Belarus XII / Касьцёлы Беларусі ХІІ

Churches of Belarus (part XII).  Касьцёлы Беларусі (частка ХІІ). Calvinism flourished for only a generation in the 16th century among the nobility of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.  This exceptionally rare — and neglected — example of the Calvinist patrimony of Belarus from the former estate of the Zavisha family in Kukhtsichy dates from the mid-16th century.… Continue reading Photo of the Day for February 28, 2012: Churches of Belarus XII / Касьцёлы Беларусі ХІІ

Photo of the Day for February 24, 2012: Happy Birthday to Ryhor Baradulin

A bow to Belarusian National Poet Ryhor Baradulin in honor of his 77th birthday.  З нагоды 77-а дня народзінаў Народнага паэта Рыгора Барадуліна.  Паклон Вам, спадару Рыгору! Njerush (Неруш), the title of the Baradulin poem presented below, is a Belarusian word without a single-word equivalent in other languages.  It means an unexpected discovery of something… Continue reading Photo of the Day for February 24, 2012: Happy Birthday to Ryhor Baradulin