Photos of the Day for July 9, 2017

Portraits of Polesia (Pripet Marshes), Tsjerablichy 2016. Партрэты Палесься, Цераблічы 2016 г.     Waiting for the cow to come home. У чаканьні каровы.     Great-grandmother Maryja. Прабабуля Марыя.

Photos of the Day for July 8, 2017

Sunday Mattins, Orthodox church of the Holy Trinity, Azdamichy 2017. Ютрань, царква Сьвятой Тройцы, Аздамічы 2017 г.        

Photos of the Day for June 24, 2017

Evening light in late spring, Tsjerablichy 2017. From mid-May the Polesian evening sky rises and the light gives a lingering caress to wooden fences and the sides of wooden houses. Вячэрнае асьвятленьне познай вясной, Цераблічы 2017 г.      

Photo of the Day for June 23, 2017

Portraits of Polesia:  after the celebration of the feast of St. John the Evangelist, Vjalikaje Maljeshava 2017. Партрэты Палесься:  пасьля сьвяткаваньня прастольнага сьвята Яна Багаслова, Вялікае Малешава 2017 г.    

Photo of the Day for June 22, 2017

Portraits of Polesia:  Jan Mikulich (89).  Azdamichy 2017. Mr. Mikulich is one of the oldest parishioners of the church of the Holy Trinity in Azdamichy. Партрэты Палесься:  Ян Мікуліч (89).  Аздамічы 2017 г. Спадар Ян адзін з найстаршых прыхаджанаў царквы Сьвятой Тройцы ў Аздамічах.    

Photo of the Day for June 21, 2017

Portraits of Polesia:  granny Eufrasin’nja with her granddaughter and great-granddaughter.  Tsjerablichy 2017. Партрэты Палесься:  бабуля Эўфрасіньня з унучкай і праўнучкай.  Цераблічы 2017 г.    

Photos of the Day for June 13, 2017

Crosses of Belarus (part LXX):  rare cemetery cross hewn from a single bough-section, Bizharavichy 2007-2017. This cross was still in good shape when I first saw it in 2007.  However, the country-wide mania of cutting down cemetery trees hit Bizharavichy in 2014, and by late spring 2017 the last three years’ exposure to the elements… Continue reading Photos of the Day for June 13, 2017