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From this morning’s first walk.

The sunrise reaches La Bajada pass, running east and south of Caja del Rio on El Camino Real from Santa Fe to Mexico City.

This photo could hardly impress anyone who lived somewhere with humidity. Har.

But, our typical summertime humidity runs around 15 to 25% even during the monsoon season. We get a small amount of monsoon rain before moisture streams from the South dry out completely in the uplift of the Southern Rockies.

Last night we had what NOAA euphemistically calls a “trace” of rain. But, on my first walk along the fenceline with Rally I could see enough moisture had collected in a depression on the East-facing shoulder of the ancient volcano immediately across the valley of La Cieneguilla – to start a breath of mist rising.

I waited for the sunrise to reach the volcano and recorded the moment.

Analysis of viewing figures shows peak demand for FilmOn’s “naughty movies” was around 11AM on Sunday.

By contrast, internet analysts Hitwise found that usage of video sites peaked on Sundays but more traditional adult sites experienced a dip.

Sundays, it said, was the top day for visits to internet shopping and social networking sites.

Explaining the film viewing data, Alki David, founder of FilmOn, said: “The data applies to both men and women and it certainly poses the question about what has happened to the traditional ‘day of rest’ in Great Britain.”

Different genres of downloaded videos peaked on different days; “family viewing” films experienced a peak on Wednesdays, while sport-related titles showed a Saturday spike in sales.

This chimes with Hitwise’s figures across all sport-related sites, which have a pronounced peak on Saturdays around 50% higher than any other day of the week. This, according to Hitwise research director Robin Goad, is likely driven by football fans.

I think the wife and kids have gone to church or to visit gran – and dad’s left home alone “to catch up with what’s on the Web”.

…this is what I saw.

Unfortunately – though I always take a camera with me on every walk – I didn’t get the damned thing out of my pocket, turned-on and recording a video in under 5 seconds.

Which is how long it took the pair of Mexican Wolves I happened upon in the bosque of the Santa Fe River behind our back meadow, last week – to disappear into the brush and trees. I shot about 5 seconds of nothing, nada.

But, I got a good look at them. The rearmost of the pair even stopped and looked back over his shoulder at me on the hillside. Coloration, head shape and body-size all match this photo from the National Zoo.

They were beautiful. I’ll keep watching.