Tag: Belarus

Photos of the Day for June 14, 2018

Cycle of the year:  plowing the potato patch.  Varsyn’ 2018. The potato is central to the Belarusian diet and, with periods of war, deprivation and destruction seared into the nation’s memory, to maintaining village household reserves of food.  Many household plots and plots arbitrarily allocated by the local collective farm are too small to make… Continue reading Photos of the Day for June 14, 2018

Photos of the Day for June 13, 2018

Cycle of the year:  transplanting cucumber seedlings.  Azdamichy 2018. By mid-April the first batch of forced seedlings is ready for transplanting to the main hothouse.  Transplanting requires close coordination among extended-family members, whose seemingly effortless movements belie the back-breaking nature of the work in the breathless air of the hothouse. Кола года: высадка расады агуркоў. … Continue reading Photos of the Day for June 13, 2018

Photos of the Day for June 12, 2018

Cycle of the year:  readying hothouses to grow cucumbers. Eastern Stolin District in central Polesia has become Belarus’ cucumber capital.  Much of the crop is exported to Russia.  The area is covered in hothouses, ranging from agribusiness-size facilities in Al’shany, which has a statue in honor of the cucumber, to small constructions in many village… Continue reading Photos of the Day for June 12, 2018

Photos of the Day for June 11, 2018

Cycle of the year:  transplanting cabbage seedlings.  Tsjerablichy 2018. Once the risk of a late frost is much lower, families take advantage of any spare time in early April for this back-breaking work. Кола года: перасадка капуснай расады.  Цераблічы 2018 г.         Cabbage patch covered in straw.  Капусная расада пакрытая саломай.  

Photo of the Day for June 10, 2018

Cycle of the year:  ready for spring planting.  Tsjerablichy 2018. A Belarusian yard:  tidy, painted, with an orderly fence, everything in its place — even the piles of manure ready to be spread for potato planting. Кола года: усё падрыхтаванае да пасадкі.  Цераблічы 2018 г. Беларуская гаспадарка: чысценькі двор, плот у парадку, усё правільна афарбаванае,… Continue reading Photo of the Day for June 10, 2018

Photo of the Day for June 9, 2018

Cycle of the year:  spring cleaning.  Azdamichy 2018. With the onset of spring, Belarusian villages — which in any event are not idle even in the depths of winter — pick up their pace with spring cleaning in anticipation of Eastertide, planting, and the release of cows to pasture.  Кола года: веснавая прыборка двара.  Аздамічы… Continue reading Photo of the Day for June 9, 2018

Photos of the Day for June 6, 2018

Orthodox Holy Week and Eastertide in Polesia (X/XII). Страсны (русальны) тыдзень і сьветлы тыдзень на Палесьсі (X/XII).   Easter (Bright) Monday in the parish of the Holy Trinity is always a splendid occasion to witness the transmission of faith and traditions from grandparents to grandchildren.  Here grandparents teach their grandchildren to kiss the special Easter… Continue reading Photos of the Day for June 6, 2018

Photos of the Day for June 4, 2018

Orthodox Holy Week and Eastertide in Polesia (VIII/XII). See also photos of the day for May 19-21 and May 25-28, 2018. Страсны (русальны) тыдзень і сьветлы тыдзень на Палесьсі (VIII/XII). Гл. таксама фотаздымкі дня 19-21 траўня ды 25-28 траўня 2018 г.   Easter (Bright) Monday service, Azdamichy 2018. Сьветлы панядзелак, Аздамічы 2018 г.    … Continue reading Photos of the Day for June 4, 2018