Last harvest days before Pakrou (feast of the Intercession of the Blessed Mother of God). It is still a strongly-observed tradition in Belarus to clear the harvest from garden plots and field allotments before the feast of Pakrou on October 14 in order to ensure the the Mother of God’s protection of the land during… Continue reading Photos of the Day for October 25, 2017
Tag: Polesia
Photo of the Day for October 24, 2017
Last harvest days before Pakrou (feast of the Intercession of the Blessed Mother of God). It is still a strongly-observed tradition in Belarus to clear the harvest from garden plots and field allotments before the feast of Pakrou on October 14 in order to ensure the the Mother of God’s protection of the land during… Continue reading Photo of the Day for October 24, 2017
Photos of the Day for October 1, 2017
August haying. Al’pjen’ 2017. Жнівеньскі сенакос. Альпень 2017 г.
Photos of the Day for September 30, 2017
Harvesting potatoes from the garden. Tsjerablichy 2017. It is a deeply-engrained custom in Belarusian villages to plant potatoes on a significant portion of the garden around one’s house. After photographing Vasil’ and his daughter Tats’tsjana at work, I put the camera aside and helped fill two bags’ worth. Пакуль спадар Васіль нясе поўны мяшок на… Continue reading Photos of the Day for September 30, 2017
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 September 28, 2017
Chasing butterflies, Vjeljamichy 2017. Some villages, by their setting and the nature of their inhabitants, always lead one into fables and beyond time. Vjeljamichy is such a village. As we took in the bucolic scenes along the shore of Lake Sijatsy under late August light, a little girl dashed into the pasture with a butterfly… Continue reading Photos of the Day for September 28, 2017
Photos of the Day for September 27, 2017
Portraits of Polesia, Orthodox feast of the Transfiguration (Apple-Blessing feast – Jablychny Spas), Azdamichy, August 19, 2017. VIII/VIII Партрэты Палесься, Праабражэньне Гасподняе (Яблычны Спас), Аздамічы 2017 г. VIII/VIII
Photos of the Day for September 26, 2017
Portraits of Polesia, Orthodox feast of the Transfiguration (Apple-Blessing feast – Jablychny Spas), Azdamichy, August 19, 2017. VII/VIII Партрэты Палесься, Праабражэньне Гасподняе (Яблычны Спас), Аздамічы 2017 г. VII/VIII A grandmother with her granddaughter, and with the same clear and steady gaze… …as in 2009. Natalja, a… Continue reading Photos of the Day for September 26, 2017
Photos of the Day for September 25, 2017
Orthodox feast of the Transfiguration (Apple-Blessing feast – Jablychny Spas), Azdamichy, August 19, 2017. VI/VIII Blessing of apples in Azdamichy. Father Aljaksandr makes three circuits of the churchyard, in turn censing the fruit, sprinkling the fruit with holy water, and then offering the cross for parishioners to kiss before they hurry to the cemetery to… Continue reading Photos of the Day for September 25, 2017
Photos of the Day for September 23, 2017
Orthodox feast of the Transfiguration (Apple-Blessing feast – Jablychny Spas), Tsjerablichy, August 19, 2017. IV/VIII Blessing of apples and other first fruits in Tsjerablichy. Owing to the illness of parish priest Father Vital’, Father Mikalaj from Plotnitsa officiated. Праабражэньне Гасподняе (Яблычны Спас), Цераблічы 2017 г. IV/VIII Асьвячэньне яблыкаў ды іншай садавіны ў Цераблічах. З-за таго,… Continue reading Photos of the Day for September 23, 2017