Sunday Afternoon Post: The Yucca Forests of Southern New Mexico

Along I-10 in New Mexico, between Deming and Lordsburg, one drives through a literal forest of yuccas.  Pictures do not do the scenery justice, but they can afford a taste of the experience.

I-10 westbound looking north.  There were way more of them there than the picture suggests, probably because we were moving at a decent clip.

I was expecting creosote flats typical of the basins of the hot deserts, but instead found a lush, if sharp, forest.  Our deserts are as dry as the rest of them, and far more hot than so many around the world, but somehow have a lot more life to them.