Photo of the Day for January 18, 2018

Polesia in winter:  Vjalikaje Maljeshava 2017. Палесьсе ўзімку: Вялікае Малешава 2017 г.  

Photo of the Day for January 17, 2018

Mid-winter light in Polesia.  Tsjerablichy 2017. Сьвятло ў сярэдзіне зімы.  Цераблічы 2017 г.    

Photo of the Day for January 16, 2018

Polesia in winter:  to home during the break in the Orthodox service for the feast of the Circumcision of the Lord (January 14), Tsjerablichy 2017. Палесьсе ўзімку: дахаты падчас перапынку на службе Абрэзаньня Гасподняга, Цераблічы 2017 г.  

Photos of the Day for January 14, 2018

Orthodox feast of the Circumcision of the Lord (January 14), Azdamichy 2017. Абрэзаньня Гасподняга, Аздамічы 2017 г.          

Photo of the Day for January 12, 2018

Polesia in winter:  oak tree, Buda (Zhytkavichy District) 2017. Палесьсе ўзімку: дубы, Буда (Жыткавіцкі р.) 2017 г.    

Photos of the Day for January 10, 2018

Polesia in winter:  Rubel’ 2011.   Палесьсе ўзімку: Рубэль (Рубель) 2011 г.   Churches of Belarus (part CCXXXV):  Orthodox church of the Archangel Michael (1796). Цэрквы Беларусі (частка CCXXXV):  царква Сьвятога Міхала Арханёла (1796 г.).           Churches of Belarus (part CCXXXVI):  Orthodox church of the Image of the Savior, Not Made By… Continue reading Photos of the Day for January 10, 2018

Photo of the Day for January 3, 2018

January ice-floes on the River Prypjats’ (Pripet), near Chernichy 2014. The bridge from which I took this photo is closed for lengthy repairs. Студзеньскі лёд па русле р. Прыпяць, ля в. Чэрнічы 2014 г.  

Photos of the Day for September 29, 2017

Potato harvest from the family allotment, Tsjerablichy 2017. First cultivated in the Belarusian lands in the mid-18th century, the potato is now one of the most important elements in the Belarusian diet.  Families anxiously await the harvest, the quantity and quality of which to a huge degree will determine both how well a homestead makes… Continue reading Photos of the Day for September 29, 2017

Photos of the Day for July 10, 2017

Feast of St. John the Evangelist, Vjalikaje Maljeshava 2017 (I/VIII). In commemoration of its former wooden church of St. John the Evangelist, built in 1792 and destroyed under the Soviet regime, the Orthodox parish of the Nativity celebrates St. John the Evangelist (May 21) as a patronal feast . Сьвятога апостала Яна Багаслова, Вялікае Малешава… Continue reading Photos of the Day for July 10, 2017