Fresh milk with cream.  Сьвежае малачко з вяршкамі. Tsjerablichy 2011.  Цераблічы 2011 год.

Feast of the Holy Trinity (III), Orthodox church of the Holy Trinity, Azdamichy 2011.  Сьвяток Сьвятой Тройцы (частка III), царква Сьвятой Тройцы, Аздамічы 2011 год. The Orthodox parish church of Azdamichy-Tsjerablichy is standing-room-only for its annual name-day feast on the Tuesday after Trinity Sunday (the third day of Trinity).  In 2011 the parish celebrated its… Continue reading Photo of the Day for July 8, 2011: Feast of Holy Trinity III / Сьвяток Сьвятой Тройцы ІІІ

Songfest, Janka Kupala Literary Museum, Vjazynka 2011.  Купальскія вакацыі, філіял Дзяржаўнага літаратурнага музэя Янкі Купалі ў Вязынцы 2011 год.

Feast of the Holy Trinity (II), Orthodox church of the Holy Trinity, Azdamichy 2011.  Сьвяток Сьвятой Тройцы (частка II), царква Сьвятой Тройцы, Аздамічы 2011 год. The Orthodox parish church of Azdamichy-Tsjerablichy is standing-room-only for its annual name-day feast on the Tuesday after Trinity Sunday (the third day of Trinity).  In 2011 the parish celebrated its… Continue reading Photo of the Day for July 6, 2011: Feast of Holy Trinity II / Сьвяток Сьвятой Тройцы ІІ

Feast of the Holy Trinity (I), Orthodox church of the Holy Trinity, Azdamichy 2011.  Сьвяток Сьвятой Тройцы (частка І), царква Сьвятой Тройцы, Аздамічы 2011 год. The Orthodox parish of Azdamichy-Tsjerablichy holds its annual name-day feast on the Tuesday after Trinity Sunday (the third day of Trinity), June 14 in 2011.  Placed throughout churches for Trinity,… Continue reading Photo of the Day for July 5, 2011: Feast of Holy Trinity I / Сьвяток Сьвятой Тройцы І

The Extraordinary in the “Ordinary”:  Hands VII.  Надзвычайнае ў “звычайным“:  рукі (частка VII). Hard-working but ever graceful.  Alert even in repose, when they rest — as always — in their proper place.  I think Belarusan hands reveal most eloquently Belarusans’ distinctive and instinctive traditions and attachment to place. See also photos for June 16 and… Continue reading Photo of the Day for July 4, 2011: Hands VII / Рукі VII

Windows IV.  Вокны (частка IV). Tsjerablichy 2011.  Цераблічы 2011 год.

In honor of the annual Marian pilgrimage to Budslau.  З нагоды пілігрымкі ў Будслаў. Celebratory Mass, Budslau, July 2, 2009.  Урачыстая імша, Будслаў 02.07.2009.

The Bench VII.  Лаўка (частка VII). 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 bench is the… Continue reading Photo of the Day for July 1, 2011: The Bench VII / Лаўка VII

The feast of the Apostles Peter and Paul, one of the major feast days in the Christian year, falls on June 29 in the Roman Catholic calendar.  Iuje parish and its priest Fr. Jan Gawecki are especially active and the church of the Apostles Peter and Paul is standing room only at both masses on… Continue reading Photos of the Day for June 30, 2011: Feast of Peter and Paul / Пятра й Паўла