It is often said that we, here on the island of Newfoundland and especially on its East Coast, are susceptible to long stretches at this time of year of wet foggy and cool weather. "Three-week fogs" some of us call them.

We're in one now.

In that sort of cool dark weather, the flowers do slowly get squeezed out of their plantworks, but the pollinators, like bees, need something warmer than day-in-day-out six-degree temperatures.

Today for a few minutes it got up to fourteen degrees (plus change), and the fog lifted long or high enough for the sun to cast vague shadows. The bees were out their gates.

This one was face and eyes into the pistabeds by our house.