Category: traditional

Pastoral

Mountains, hills, grass, cow, sheep: a pastoral image

Pastoral


Painter at work

Restoration work in an orthodox church

Painter at work


The shoemaker

The old shoe maker and his opanaks


Mucenim

Ana getting ready to feast on some mucenici


Early bird

Such is village life, you have to wake-up early in the morning

Early bird


Negru Vodă

Following on the footsteps of the elusive Wallachian ruler, Negru Vodă

Negru Vodă


Scary bunny

That’s what I could do before the 4 years old became scared by the bunny and totally refused to cooperate any more. Which happened very soon.

Scary bunny


My painted eggs

A look at my painted (Easter) eggs. In charge with the decorations was my 4 years old.

My painted eggs


Dragobete

Kisses for Dragobete from Romania

Dragobete


Ready for Dragobete

Dragobete is a kind of local (Romanian) Valentine’s Day

Ready for Dragobete


A bag of holy water

On the Epiphany day, she comes from the church with a bottle of holy water in her bag

a bag of holy water


2017 on fire

The fireworks for the New Year in the nearby park are as usual, not very impressive, but they are convenient.

2017 on fire


Sorcova

Interpretation of the traditional “Sorcova” carol

Sorcova


Modern caroler

A combination of modern and traditional for this New Year carol

Modern caroler


The morning of St. Nick

Building-up for Christmas, in the morning of Saint Nicholas day good kids are expecting little presents in their boots. Nasty kids not so much…

The morning of St. Nick