Dragomiresti Monastery

We drove on, deeper into the Marmures, in search of the famed wooden churches, of monasteries, and of the peasant way of life that persists here.

So Vicki has formulated this theory, namely, The Monastical

Theory of Encampment, that, in this heavily devout country,

no one will bother us if we are parked outside the monastery;

indeed, people driving by, whole tour buses, actually cross

themselves; anyhow, we tried it, with success, at the

Dragomiresti Monastery; happily, so far as we have seen,

monasteries outnumber gas stations in Romania by about 3 to 1

The front gate, beautifully carved

I walked up the hill to check out the

monastery

Not one of the ancient ones

In the courtyard

But it did have a fairly typical wooden

church, for which the region is famous

And later in the evening, aplenglow on one

of the Vlad the Impaler haystacks;

haystackenglow?