The Pori Silakka Markkinat (Baltic herring festival markets), is on this weekend, starting on Friday 31 August, and finishing on Sunday 2 September,  a three-day event.

Pori Baltic Herring festival markets are an annual event, it is a great place to discover some of the regional food products and some traditional Finnish foods and broader European flavors.  There are as well many local products, handicrafts, and clothing stores.

Also for many  organic health food ingredients, some of them are:

• Sea-buckthorn berry products (Tyrni), there are concentrated juices, including that the berry seeds are crushed so that the omega 3, 6, and 9 are accessible to the consumer.

• Wild honey from Lapland.  Many varieties of Lapland honey, some of the ones I tasted were; Raspberry and wild meadow. Bees feed on the flowers of various plants in their given environment, there can be a sugar difference in the honey they produce, e.g., honey rich in fructose, and honey rich in glucose, just to name a few. The visible difference is in the color of the honey.
• Glow baked salmon (traditional method) cooked on the spot with an open fireplace.
• Fruit and vegetables, apples and variety of fresh and dried local mushrooms.

Pori Baltic herring festival 2012 is also the Autumn festival on the calendar, end of the summer season, the weather cools down, the tree leaves change color and eventually fall off the trees bright red or yellow color. Another cycle of the seasons completed, and the mother nature prepares to shut down for the long cold winter of hibernation.

That is another good reason for photography hobbies, to capture and record the bright highlights of summer, and the sparkling cold white winter landscapes, with the surreal flow of the snow. To see some pictures from the Nordic summers and winters gone by, visit the following picture gallery.

Here is a link to a picture gallery; Pori Baltic Herring Festival 2012