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By GEORGE MORSESports And OutdoorsLos Alamos Daily PostWith the official beginning of spring  Saturday March 20  less than two weeks away, the weather is certainly indicating a changing of the seasons. Temperatures have been climbing into the 60s and 70sand some mornings the low temperatures have been above freezing.Much of New Mexico is locked into an exceptional drought and this winter has not delivered what was needed to pull us out of it. Snowpacks remain below normal and the weather pattern is typical of a La Nina winter with the strongest storms passing to the north of New Mexico.Reservoir levels remain very low with most New Mexico reservoirs holding less than 20-percent of their capacity and in many cases less than 10-percent of their capacity according to the National Resources Conservation Service Snow Survey.It looks like a challenging year for New Mexicos farmers and water managers as they try to squeeze as much as they can out of or limit stanley cup uk ed water resource. It could be an active fire season a stanley cup canada s well.It looks like our brief ice-fishi stanley quencher ng season is over with the closing of Lake Maloya near Raton and Heron Lake near Chama to ice fishing. Eagle Nest Lake and Fenton Lake closed earlier at the beginning of February.New Mexicos State Parks are now open to all visitors. Camping is allowed by reservation only. Call 877.664.7787 for reservations.Morphy Lake State Park near Mora was opened for day use March 1 after being closed for more than a year. Initially, it was closed for Yosr LANL:  Halos  Discovered On Mars Widen Time Frame For Potential Life
NEW MEXICO HISTORY MUSEUM News:Join poet Lisa Gill for readings from her book Red as a Lotus: Letters to a Dead Trappist, interspersed with portions of the film, Compassion Rising, an outgrowth of the 1968 meeting between the Dalai Lama and Thomas Merton. The event, part of the programming series for the exhibits Illuminating the Word: The Saint Johns Bible and Contemplative Landscape, is 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 4, in the History Museum Auditorium  located at 113 Lincoln Ave., in Santa Fe. Free with admission; Sundays free to New Mexico residents.Gill received an NEA Fellowship and wrote five books, including the poetry collections Red as a Lotus, Mortar  Pestle, and Dark Enough; the hybrid memoir, Caput Nili: How I gourde stanley  Won the War and Lost My Taste for Oranges; and a verse-play featuring Woman and Rattlesnake, called The Relenting. She is the founder and executive director for the Local Poets Guild and currently lives in The Projects, a new warehouse theater and home for poetry in Albuquerque.On creating Red as a Lotus, Gill wrote that she was struck by two quotations b stanley us y Merton, a Catholic monk and writer:  The purpose of a book of meditations is to teach you how stanley usa  to think, not to do your thinking for you  and  As soon as any thought stimulates your heart or your mind, you can put the book down because your meditation has begun.  I took his words to heart and quickly found myself writing to a Catholic monk, political activist, hermit and poet who died two years bef