It’s November! WooHoo!!!

We’ve done it!  We’ve finally made it into our November photos.  Truthfully, we were beginning to wonder if it would every happen.  October was just so chocked full of photographic excitement.  But here we are.  November.

One of the other volunteers had told us about some old adobes located on bordering state land just a few miles away.  So, we took a ride over one day to check them out. 

 
                There are two buildings at this site.

        This wasn’t a window but maybe it should have been.  Nice view!

We don’t know anything about these buildings but the overcast skies on this
particular day just added to the mystery of them.

It was really interesting to see how they were constructed.

       Were these ‘bricks’ intentionally laid in this herringbone pattern?

          Just gotta love flowers created with lots of smaller flowers.

We had another Fence Day!  Only this time we were cleaning up after others who had completed a long stretch of fencing.  The area was waaaaayyyy out on the southeast portion of the refuge.  It was great to see yet another section of this beautiful refuge.

                     We passed an old line shack on the way in.

We arrived at our staging location over an hour after we left the refuge.  The fence line is in an area where even the regular sized four wheel drive vehicles cannot go so we fired up the OHVs (Off Highway Vehicles) and off we went.

Renee and Ron are tearing it up ahead of us.  It’s terrible to have so much fun while you are working!

                                  The fence line ran right along the Rio Grande.

       Many of the trees were still holding their color.

                                                 It was a wonderful day out.

                                                 We saw some neat things.

                                                 Do you know what this is?

                                            How about this?

                                  Maybe this will put it all together for you.

         A very happy and soon to be very full Thread Waisted Wasp.

                        The color on this one was just so unreal.

                           And checking out the parts close up...

                                super cool!

                           And that was how November began.

     “October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November
      arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at
      exposed hands and faces.” - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix