Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Yes, Virginia, There is a St. Sofia.

I went for a long walk on Sunday, before the thunderstorms rolled in. These are pictures of Novodevichy monastyr' [The New Maidens' Convent]. Notice how much it resembles a fortress. This is not an accident.


Stupid trees ruined what I wanted to be a cool infinity shot, a picture of a painter of a fortress...


Minus trees and people. But with ducks. I hate ducks, Kipling!


The Vestibular Church of the Transfiguration ("vestibular" being me corrupting English and forming an adjective off of "vestibule." The church has nothing to do with equilibrium. I think it's the nicest way to translate nadvratnaya, which is an Old Church Slavonic word that means, literally, "over-gates-ish")


Pleas to St. Sofia. The best part was that after I took this picture I rounded the corner and a dog was peeing on the wall. I guess it was baptizing the prayers in holy water?

4 comments:

Justin said...

RE: Vestibular

You noticed this word is in the name of my twitter account, yes? Or no?

Andrew said...

Yes, but I figured you were talking more about having two equal-sized testes, not about having lions that are easily accessed. This could, of course, be a gross miscalculation, on my part...

Andrew said...

re: myself - that typo is indicative of my life. I really thought your handle was "VestibularLoins," and I thought it was hysterical. "VestibularLions" is also very cool, but...has nothing to do with your testes.

Justin said...

Oh, Andrew.

Yes, it is in reference to the Lions which cover our vestibule.