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Yerba Mansa flowering at Sentenac Cienega today (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Great horned owl (Bubo virginianus) perched on a dead mesquite branch in the Borrego Sink this morning (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Some of the sights up an unnamed canyon near the Reserve yesterday. Note the morteros (grinding holes) used by the Kumeyaay indigenous peoples who lived here. Also some neat caves and what looks to be a sleeping circle or former agave roasting pit (Photos: Sicco Rood). (1)

Some of the sights up an unnamed canyon near the Reserve yesterday. (2) (Photos: Sicco Rood).

Some of the sights up an unnamed canyon near the Reserve yesterday. (3) (Photos: Sicco Rood).

A look at Sunset Mountain and the groundwater dependent mesquite bosque in the Borrego Sink (Photos: Sicco Rood).

Abandoned homestead somewhere in Anza-Borrego (Photos: Sicco Rood).

This morning at Yaqui Flat (Photos: Sicco Rood).

Sunrise yesterday morning. Travelers Peak in the distance (Photo: Sicco Rood).

There's one saguaro thriving in the wild in ABDSP, even though it's way out of the range of saguaro cacti. The only other known saguaro within park boundaries is at a homestead monument that is watered by humans.(Photos: Sicco Rood).

We felt and heard this small earthquake just a few minutes ago at the Reserve. It was a M3.2 at a depth of 2.4 miles and about 6 miles from our Reserve.

The view above Lizard Wash this morning (video: Sicco Rood).

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

It sure looked like we might get a nearby thunderstorm yesterday evening, but it never materialized. We did get a few sprinkles Saturday and some yesterday. A haboob drifted into the valley from the east (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Wild coyotes in Borrego don't hesitate to walk right into anyone's yard. They feel totally at home as they are not hunted in this area (Photos: Sicco Rood).

Lightning from a thunderstorm developing above Ocotillo Wells at this time.

Fish Creek flash flooded from a thunderstorm yesterday evening. As seen moments ago (video: Sicco Rood).

A few more pics from the Fish Creek area this morning while it was still cloudy (Photos: Sicco Rood). (1)

A few more pics from the Fish Creek area yesterday morning while it was still cloudy. This shows the impact craters from various size raindrops on freshly formed mud after the flash flooding had receded (Photos: Sicco Rood). (2)

View from one of the shade ramadas at Borrego Palm Canyon Campground last week (Photo: Sicco Rood).