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).

A few impressions from an Anza-Borrego Foundation Adventure Hike Saturday up Pyramid Peak. (1)

An impressive crepuscular sun ray or "God ray" was able to penetrate the clouds behind this Arizona lupine waving in the wind yesterday evening.

A hillside full of thousands of brown-eyed primroses (and a desert sunflower) in a typically barren area of the Borrego Badlands. From this morning (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Arizona lupine greets sunrise against backdrop of hairy sand verbena in Borrego Badlands this morning (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Flowers at Henderson Canyon Rd Wildflower Area are still looking great (see from this morning below). However, many from the fall crop of desert sunflowers have peaked. Recent rains are producing a more recent crop of desert sunflowers in this same area. (Photos: Sicco Rood).

Desert lily overlooks part of the Borrego Badlands this evening at sunset (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Earthquake (4.61M) 48 miles north of us near Indio Hills just a few minutes ago! We received USGS's shake alert in Borrego Springs just moments before feeling the rolling/weaving with a little shake. This is a bighorn group above Hellhole/Montezuma grade from this afternoon (Video: Sicco Rood).

Bighorn ewe on sharp side ridge of Pá•at Téewenet - The Bighorn Sheep’s lookout. The place where the Bighorn looks (Indianhead Peak) at sunset this evening (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Desert lily in the Borrego Badlands (1-17-26). (Photo: Sicco Rood)

Waning crescent moon & earthshine @5:51 today. This shows earth's (albedo), which is brightest in spring due to snow/ice & caused by sunlight reflecting off earth's surface and then back onto the Moon, making the "dark side" softly visible (helps scientists study Earth's atmosphere and exoplanets).

Local news asking us questions about the bloom happening in the park. youtu.be/rd9ZSf9G5rM

Checkered White on one of the many Emory's rock daisies on the ridge behind the Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center today (Photos: Sicco Rood).

Desert broomrape (Aphyllon cooperi) flowering in Coyote Canyon. Broomrape is a parasitic plant growing attached to the roots of other plants taking its nutrients from a host plant nearby. It lacks leaves and chlorophyll (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Coyotes on Coyote Mountain under overcast skies (1-3-26).

Temperatures temporarily dropped into the 20's F in the lowest parts of the Borrego Sink this morning. Some of these desert flowers got a bit frosty! (Photos: Sicco Rood)

A few more moisture images from January 2nd, the day after the close to 2" of rain fell in the area (Photos: Sicco Rood). (1)

Jan 2, the day after the abundant rains, there was a lot of "moisture magic" in Anza-Borrego Desert (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Sunrise above Anza-Borrego this morning (Photo: Sicco Rood).

A partial rainbow and a moonbow last night. And a few other peaks at the moon setting over San Ysidro Mountain/Culp Valley area over the last couple of days (Photos: Sicco Rood).

Coyotes howling on Coyote Mountain yesterday. Note the echoes (Video: Sicco Rood). youtu.be/sPo8GyJvxt4

Coyote at home on Coyote Mountain yesterday morning. Howling video will be posted later (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Very brief and beautiful overcast sunrise at the Henderson Canyon flower field this morning (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Desert lily with an expansive view of wide open space in the Borrego Badlands (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Flooding shown in this video: Clark Dry Lake, Fonts and Inspiration Wash, Coyote Creek, Dump Wash, and a few eastern Santa Rosa Mountain washes. 1/1/26 - Park Head Quarters rainfall grand storm rainfall total of 1.71". www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dd0...

Best wishes from Clark "Dry" Lake with a rainbow this morning on Jan 1, 2026. Almost time to dust off that canoe! (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Tough bighorn sheep this New Year's Eve in the rain eating ocotillo leaves and other fresh greens on a steep slope high above Borrego Palm Canyon (Video: Sicco Rood) youtu.be/y5lDc6e7UUI

A more wintery and wet moody set from 12-24-25 at various Anza-Borrego Desert locations (1) (Photos: Sicco Rood).

A moon halo tonight above the desert signaling the approaching weather system.

Desert lily flowering on a dune at sunrise on Sunday (Photo: Sicco Rood).

A closer look at a prairie sunflower (Helianthus petiolaris var. canescens) with a fruitfly on it (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Borrego Buttes and Vallecito Mountains in the distance with ravens flying overhead at sunrise this morning (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Another desert lily flowering (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Inspiration Wash looking into the Borrego Badlands at sunrise this morning (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Sunset Mountain rising up behind a low layer of clouds with crepuscular rays hitting these clouds just right for a few minutes during yesterday's stormy day (Photo: Sicco Rood).

A wet desert lily flowering with a grand view while storm clouds are moving in from the west this morning (Photo: Sicco Rood).

High clouds kept the temps in the lower desert in 70's yesterday instead of predicted 80's. Hopefully more clouds during today's Christmas Bird Count organized by the park. Toro Peak in the first, and Borrego West Butte in the second photo's background (Photos: Sicco Rood)

On Nov 2, 2025, the Scissors Fire scorched 68 acres in San Felipe Valley. Some photos in this thread show life coming back to this area. To see the rest of the set, www.facebook.com/groups/anzab...

"Tree ring clouds" at sunrise above an ocotillo yesterday morning (Photo: Sicco Rood).