Hairy sand verbena and Spanish needle yesterday morning in profile (Photo: Sicco Rood).

The waning gibbous moon setting behind two agave stalks on San Ysidro Mountain just after sunrise today (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Lone bighorn sheep on rock outcrop of San Ysidro Mountain this morning (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Moonrise above the Santa Rosa Mountains yesterday evening (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Desert sunflowers starting to pop up along with the hairy sand verbena purple flowers in part of the Coyote Creek watershed (Photos: Sicco Rood).

This picture does not carry the wonderful fragrance that goes with these hairy sand verbena flowers! (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Living on the edge: A desert tortoise talk (recorded today). The talk was given by our desert tortoise biologist and Reserves Director Dr. Kirsten Dutcher. Presented at the ABDSP Visitor Center. YouTube video can be viewed here: youtu.be/KxVkc6wEBaQ

Very sharp and alert coyote in the Borrego Valley yesterday morning (Photos: Sicco Rood).

Hairy sand verbena flowering on a dune at sunset (Photo: Sicco Rood).

A night view of Texas Dip and Comet Lemmon, from Monday evening. Now this location is familiar to film going audiences due to the climactic scene in the currently playing film One Battle After Another. See other desert filming locations here: www.facebook.com/groups/anzab...

Sunday morning sunrise above Borrego Springs (Photo: Sicco Rood).

A cholla cactus at sunset earlier this year (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Conditions were more favorable in the desert this evening for viewing C/2025 A6 (comet Lemmon). Seen here about to set behind San Ysidro Mountain at 7:44 pm (Photo: Sicco Rood).

The desert has some great "fall" color displays thanks to the many ocotillos that leafed out from the late fall rains (Photos: Sicco Rood).

C/2025 A6 (comet Lemmon) just above the clouds at 19:40 this evening. While not as cloudy as yesterday, conditions are windy this evening above Anza-Borrego causing some camera shake as shown by the squiggly line from a passing satellite (Photo: Sicco Rood).

A partial rainbow was briefly visible to the east of Borrego Springs yesterday afternoon (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Coyote this morning near the Reserve (Photo: Sicco Rood).

The desert is starting to show swaths of "fall colors" due to the ocotillos which got a lot of monsoon rains last month and are now turning yellow on the desert floor and bajadas of Anza-Borrego Desert. Looking towards Sunset Mountain and the Glorietta Canyon bajada (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Anna's hummingbirds enjoying ocotillo flower nectar near the Rass Benchmark above Hellhole Canyon (Photos: Sicco Rood).

A cactus wren looks right while perched comfortably on a cholla cactus (Photo: Sicco Rood).

An ocotillo on top of a small ridge near Fonts Point this morning. The first winter storm brought cooler temperatures and clouds to the area (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Borrego Badlands at sunrise this morning. Salton Sea in the distance (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Sunrise on the Southern Chocolate Mountains and Algodones Dunes (east of the Salton Sea) Sunday morning (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Fog lingered on the desert floor last Saturday morning accentuating the ridge layers between Yaqui Ridge and the Salton Sea (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Some thunderstorm activity in southeastern Arizona affected the sunrise here. Looking towards the Borrego Buttes this morning.

Sunset today with what looks like the last cloud remnant from Hurricane Priscilla east of Borrego Springs this evening (Photo: Sicco Rood).

The curvy Montezuma Grade that winds down the mountainside behind the Reserve (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Lightning earlier this morning from a cell moving northeast (Photo: Sicco Rood).

One more waning gibbous moon setting behind San Ysidro Mountain this morning (Photo: Sicco Rood).

The waning gibbous moon setting behind San Ysidro Mountain this morning (Photo: Sicco Rood).

A clear view from Yaqui Ridge north and east towards the Salton Sea this morning (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Yesterday's sunrise partially obscured by haze. The southern end of the Chocolate Mountains can be seen here in the background (Photo: Sicco Rood).

A bright yellow chinchweed field in the Borrego Valley lit up by today's late afternoon sun (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Anza-Borrego sunrise between two agaves this morning on a very green and yellow carpeted desert (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Sunset last Saturday evening. Teddy-bear Cholla in the foreground (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Sunlight was sandwiched in the Borrego Badlands Saturday evening (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Thunderstorms east of the Salton Sea early this morning and some rain showers north and south of Borrego Springs today (Photos: Sicco Rood).

A coyote at the Reserve this afternoon (Photo: Sicco Rood).

A post monsoon desert fall bloom with the pungent or fragrant chinchweed, depending on whom you ask. It has a citrus-like odor. The no-see-ums or sand flies seem to really swarm this area. Be prepared to be on the menu! This afternoon on the Glorietta Canyon alluvial fan (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Mud cracking and curling in the washes today. Coyote prints, and rain drop impacts. Desert shaggy mane coming through the cracks (Photos: Sicco Rood).

Teddy-bear cholla at sunrise on 9-18-25 (Photo: Sicco Rood).

It was still overcast this morning with some crepuscular rays getting through (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Clear view of lightning withing a thunderstorm cell that was building over Clark Dry Lake and Rabbit Peak on 9-18-25. As seen that evening from Coyote Canyon where the coyotes joined in for a howl fest for a while.

"Borrego Falls". A waterfall yesterday evening, quite a ways out of Coyote Canyon (Video: Sicco Rood).

Moisture from Tropical Storm Mario came over Anza-Borrego Desert overnight. More rain showers expected in the area today (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Humidity and clouds started coming in from Tropical Storm Mario. Leafed out ocotillo in the foreground (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Common Chuckwalla near Church Spur Ridge this afternoon (Photo: Sicco Rood).

The sun rising above the Chocolate Mountains this morning (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Rain from a thunderstorm above Culp Valley and Wilson Peak late afternoon of 9-5-25 created this faint rainbow, almost framing the anticrepuscular rays above the desert (Photo: Sicco Rood).

A cloud at sunset above a ridge of Sunset Mountain earlier last week (Photo: Sicco Rood).