Wildly Flowering Finland: Kotipihlaja - Whitebeam or Rowan ( Sorbus aucuparia )

Torpan pihalla kukkii pihjaja. Jätin sen rauhaan, kun raivasin muuta risukkoa pois. On se kaunis kukkineen, mutta myös kaunis syksyllä kun kantaa marjojaan.
Pihjajanmarjoistakin saa tehtyä mehua ja hilloketta. Toivotaan, että päästään säilöntähommiin syksyllä.

On the cottage yard is flowering Rowan.  It is beautufull with white flower and the smell is strong. Rowan look like Bird cherry. In autumn hopefully we can harvest the berries to jelly and juice.
Rowans berries are often up and high. We have a Finnish proverb for situation when everything doesn't go ok; "Bitter, said a Fox about rowanberries"
Pihlaja also called "kettukarkki" ("fox candy") is a marmelade candy produced by Fazer. Fazer started producing the candy in 1895 at the conditory in Helsinki and it is the oldest candy produced by Fazer still on the market. The candy's recipe comes from Russia, where Karl Fazer took it with him when he returned to Finland after his studies. The candies are wrapped in a yellow-red paper with a picture of a fox. Thus the candy is also unofficially known as the "fox candy".
The candy originally contained Sorbus aucuparia berries.