Adobe Landscape

About Adobe Landscape

At sunrise on El Paso's Mission Trail, the old walls of Ysleta Mission catch the first light and turn the gold of a fresh tortilla. Adobe Landscape borrows its name from that same building earth, and the city's yards are where it works. This is country where agave, yucca and desert willow look born to the place, and a landscape that leans into sand, rust and sage stays handsome in light that would bleach anything less suited to it. Nothing here fights the climate; the whole yard seems to have grown up out of the desert floor. In the cool hour before the sun turns white, a yard like that glows the way those mission walls do.