The swan (Cygnus cygnus), national bird of Finland, photographed here at Midsummer day, when the sun is visible day and night.
At the present time all people in the North are loving the swans; earlier it was persecuted almost to the extinction.
Swans are today rather common, especially in the Eastern and Northern Finland. These birds in this picture are juvenile (not nesting in this year).
Nesting couples are in this time already swiming whith their yougns.

Many tall herbs thrive in North Finland on the riverside and other moist, luxuriant forests as well as
on the moist meadows (especially accompanied by men). In this picture: cow parsley (Anthriscus silvestris)
is already making fruits, meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria) is flowering, and rosebay willowherb (Chamaenerion angustifolium) has hardly buds.
All these plants are good enough to cultivate as ornamental plants - but perhaps there are too common in the nature here in the north?

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