The fog burns away the snow on the Twin Mountains this morning overlooking the community. Below in the community the residents go about their daily lives and it's just another day not unlike the previous one. Each morning school children and residents travel this road and return at days end. It's a great place to live and its all worth the daily commute to have the comfort of living in a small community. Spring is just a day on the calendar here and we know that the date is just that. Spring has to claw and fight its way in and summer seems to come and go all to fast. They say climatically, Newfoundland is the most maritime of the Atlantic Provinces, and this is evident in all seasons, but especially in spring and summer, which are quite cool by Canadian standards. Were not noted for our sunshine here and many days we see the fog forming on the Twin Mountains as in todays photo. Statistics Canada,who i always like to quote says our total number of hours of bright sunshine for the island is usually less than 1600 hours a year.We experience an average of 187 hours of sunshine a month, about 42% of the total possible. The least sunshine is experienced in December, when the average daily duration is about 2 hours. To some that might sound a bit depressing today.To me that sounds ok about now because im ready for that few days ahead we call summer and so are the residents of that little community below those Twin Mountains.
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