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The summer nature of Ukonjärvi offers its visitors light and sunshine, warmth, and of course, mosquitoes are also a part of the experience.

When the sun stays above the horizon in May, it marks the beginning of the brightest time of the year at our location. The last ice melts from Ukonjärvi and Lake Inari. The ground thaws, emitting the scent of the approaching summer. Labrador tea blooms with its white, intoxicatingly fragrant flowers, and the first cloudberry flowers appear. This indicates that within a couple of months, the first golden yellow cloudberries will be found. Morel mushrooms begin to emerge from the ground. Sounds from nature carry far, but as trees start to green and leaves grow, these sounds become softer. Soon, it's Midsummer, known in Finland as the celebration of midsummer, marking the time when the duration of daylight begins to decrease again.

In July, summer matures and warms up. Cloudberry flowers turn into raw berries and ripen in the light of the nightless night. Blueberry raw berries grow, lingonberries and crowberries bloom. The sun, shining day and night, warms both the land and the water. A true summer. Even heat and light 24 hours a day. A wonderful, warm summer that already starts to change in early August. Nights cool down and darken, mosquitoes are gone. It's time to pick berries – cloudberries, blueberries. Lingonberries and crowberries will be ready later in the fall.

As the days continue to shorten, with the right weather, we can admire the northern starry sky and the Northern Lights. In October and November, snow falls and gradually ice covers the lakes again, completely transforming the landscape.

Just before Christmas, around the time of the winter solstice, there's a feeling that the darkness is ending and the light begins to increase again. And just a few days and weeks later, nature looks completely different.

The Northern Lights flare and reflect on the white snow, tree branches droop under the weight of snow. The entire nature is pure white. The sunlight increases every day, and the first rays of sun in mid-January are so bright, so dazzling that they can dazzle eyes accustomed to the darkness of the polar night.

It's better to get accustomed to the increasing sunlight because it keeps growing until March 21st, the spring equinox, when day and night are again of equal length. There are still the last faint Northern Lights before spring arrives at Ukonjärvi. Within a few weeks, nights turn blue and gradually lighten into sunny nights. From the latter part of May, the sun stays above the horizon. Ice melts, snow melts, and nature starts to turn green.