Hazy sunrise above Travelers Peak on Monday(Photo: Sicco Rood).

Saguaros in Ca natively grow only in the eastern corner of the state along the AZ border. Somehow this individual is doing great without being artificially watered (there is one more within the park boundary, but that is a homestead memorial) (Photos: Sicco Rood).

View of Mescal Bajada this morning with Golden Pacific Powerlink 500-kV high-voltage transmission line. will cut through the middle of Anza-Borrego Desert (if SDGE and their investors get what they want). Please go here to learn more and take action: theabf.org/park-threat/

Truckhaven Rocks, a windswept area with barren sandstone formations. During an earlier storm this month (2026-04-12).

Timelapse of stacked lenticular clouds above the Santa Rosa Mountains yesterday afternoon (Video: Sicco Rood). youtu.be/Yqr8o6PwVrw

Yesterday's colorful sunrise above Anza-Borrego Desert (Photo: Sicco Rood).

A black-throated sparrow from Flat Cat Canyon (Photo: Sicco Rood).

A California quail on an ocotillo at Borrego Palm Canyon (Sicco Rood).

A raven chases a cottontail rabbit at the Reserve. The bunny got away (Photos: Sicco Rood).

Northern mockingbird at Flat Cat Canyon (04-05-26).

A flame skimmer in Borrego Palm Canyon last Sunday.

A desert iguana near Flat Cat Canyon this morning (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Purple desert hairy verbena flowers were visible from space during their peak around 02/09/26. Photo: Sentinel-2 satellite imagery. Sarah Payne, a visiting researcher who stayed at the Reserve used ENVI to make the colors more visible through a process called Band Mapping.

Someone in the previous post asked why the roadrunner was not being chased by the coyote... It appears Wile E. Coyote was still in the Borrego Badlands absorbed in contemplation (Photo: Sicco Rood).

A roadrunner was observed running north (away from the heat perhaps) in the clouds. West of Bishop, CA last week (Photo: Sicco Rood).

A hillside with flowers from the "flash" bloom (2-6-26).

The record breaking March heatwave continued with a high of 106F yesterday recorded at the official ABDSP park headquarters weather station. Some hardy plants on the desert floor (like these prairie sunflowers on a dune in the Borrego Badlands) have not yet dried up from the heat.

Temps reached a high of 106F today at Anza-Borrego Desert Park HQ (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Bristly Langloisia and a crab spider with lunch in an Orcutt's woody aster flower in the Borrego Badlands last Saturday (Photos: Sicco Rood).

Flowers are rapidly disappearing on the desert floor with this heatwave. Some hardy ones can still be found though like these desert verbena and brown-eyed primroses at sunset (Photo: Sicco Rood).

A bighorn ewe and lamb above the Reserve last week (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Cloud cover coming south from Baja created this moody sunrise this morning over Anza-Borrego Desert (Photo: Sicco Rood).

A few more photos from Borrego Palm Canyon last Sunday, including a California tree frog on a rock near maidenhair ferns, and a roadrunner on a washed down California native fan palm trunk (Photos: Sicco Rood).

Common side-blotched lizard in Borrego Palm Canyon last Sunday (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Queen butterfly on a brittlebush flower in Borrego Palm Canyon last Sunday (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Monday's hazy moonrise over the Borrego Badlands as seen by this barely-hanging-on dune evening primrose (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Another flowering desert lily at sunset Wednesday evening (Photo: Sicco Rood).

A roadrunner couple at the Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center has begun the work of nest building in one of the native California Fan Palms out front (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Flowering desert lily underneath yesterday's sunset lenticular clouds (Photo: Sicco Rood).

A desert dandelion flower field bounced back from a full day of sun with snow-capped Toro Peak (8716 ft) in the background (Photos: Sicco Rood).

Borrego Palm Canyon even more impressive with snow at higher elevations (2/19/26).

The Reserve with snow-capped Toro Peak in the background this morning (Photo: Sicco Rood).

A solitary dune evening primrose weathered these storms and winds, yet still "stands tall" in front of snow covered San Ysidro Mountain in the west (Photo: Sicco Rood).

A rainbow "portal" made of dew and light this morning on the grade (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Snow on the mountains (above 4000-5000 feet) in the last couple of days (Photos: Sicco Rood).

A bright rainbow above a field of desert dandelions this afternoon. Some areas around Anza-Borrego have already received almost 0.2" of rain today (Photo: Sicco Rood).

A coyote taking a whiff to "gather intelligence" near the Reserve earlier last week (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Overcast sunrise this morning in the Borrego Badlands (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Flower fields have been spreading around Anza-Borrego. After 38 days without precipitation and 80F+ weather, these plants will welcome the rain which we will hopefully get next week (Photos: Sicco Rood).

A big desert lily flowering in a wash. Borrego Badlands (2-6-26). Photo: Sicco Rood

Coyote amongst desert dandelion/phacelia flowers Borrego Valley this morning (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Desert lily sunrise in the Borrego Badlands (2/6/26).

Borrego sunrise from the 18th of Jan (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Brown-eyed primroses and desert lilies are found plenty this year in the Borrego Badlands (Photos: Sicco Rood).

Lone dune evening primrose flowering on a large dune in the Borrego Badlands (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Full moon coming up behind the Borrego Badlands this evening (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Desert lily on wash edge in Borrego Badlands this morning. Desert verbena/brown-eyed primrose flower on hillside in background (Photo: Sicco Rood).

From a group of 14 bighorn rams who were roaming around Borrego Palm Canon on 2026-01-18 (Photos: Sicco Rood).(1)

Flamboyant Borrego sky Wednesday evening (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Versatile fairy shrimp have gone back into dried mud at Clark Dry Lake. They are best known for producing incredibly hardy, drought-resistant eggs (cysts) that can survive for decades in dry mud, extreme temperatures (-310F to 210F), and even outer space (Photos: Sicco Rood).