Tag: village life

Photo of the Day for May 28, 2017

Belarus in Faces (part CCXX):  grannies during Marian Month (May), Prudy 2013. These grannies were chatting on a bench after praying at a village Marian shrine — villagers in the Naliboki Wilderness (Nalibotskaja pushcha – Налібоцкая пушча) scrupulously observe the tradition of daily communal prayer to the Virgin Mary at roadside shrines.  They are holding… Continue reading Photo of the Day for May 28, 2017

Photos of the Day for May 5, 2017

Belarus in Faces (part CCXVII):  Granny Anastasia, Ordzjevichy 2017. On one of the few warmish, sunny days in April, I made a return photo-expedition to the border between Ashmjany and Smarhon’ Districts northwest of Mjensk.  Stopping to re-photograph houses in the small village of Ordzjevichy (see photo of the day for October 30, 2016), I… Continue reading Photos of the Day for May 5, 2017

Photo of the Day for May 1, 2017

Sjamihos’tsichy 2014.  As apple blossoms swirled by, this father paused from fixing the tether of his horse to put his son on the horse’s back for a brief, exhilarating ride. Сямігосьцічы 2014 г.  

Photo of the Day for April 20, 2017

Belarus in spring:  haystack from the previous year and new fence.  Filipinjaty 2014. Беларусь увесну:  леташні стог і новы плот.  Філіпіняты 2014 г.  

Photo of the Day for December 3, 2016

Sakuny Villages 2015 (IV/VI):  Shchytkavichy, Ljauki, Drazhna. Вёскі сакуноў 2015 г. (IV/VI):  Шчыткавічы, Ляўкі, Дражна.   Belarus in Faces (part CCXIV):  Leanid and Vjera. Беларусь у тварах (частка CCXIV):  спадар Леанід і спадарыня Вера.

Photos of the Day for June 1, 2014

Belarus in Faces (part CXXXIV). Depending on the character of a village and the mix of kids, parents and grandparents, some village streets form themselves naturally into an extended agora.  Azdamichy’s main street is one such lively place, especially on a Sunday evening or after a major church feast, when kids gather to talk shop… Continue reading Photos of the Day for June 1, 2014