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

Photos of the Day for May 9, 2018

Churches of Belarus (part CCLXIII):  Orthodox church of St. Anne (originally built 1861 in a traditional Belarusian style, recently totally rebuilt with an alien golden onion dome), Zahor’je 2018. Цэрквы Беларусі (частка CCLXIII): царква Сьв. Ганны (пабудавана ў 1861 г. у традыцыйным, укаранелым беларускім стылі драўлянага дойлідства, у апошні час цалкам перабудаваная як цагляная царква… Continue reading Photos of the Day for May 9, 2018

Photos of the Day for October 23, 2017

Autumn in Polesia:  harvest-time in Tsjerablichy 2017. Палесьсе ўвосень:  ураджай у Цераблічах 2017 г.          

Photos of the Day for October 2, 2017

Horsecarts.  Rubel’ (Rubjel’) 2017. Rubel’, in the middle of central Polesia’s Stolin District, was the largest village in Belarus until the early 1970s.  With about 4,700 inhabitants Rubel’ remains the second largest village in Stolin District; it is renowned not only for the industriousness of its small-holder farmers but also for producing scores of Orthodox… Continue reading Photos of the Day for October 2, 2017

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