Oasis State Park, Portales NM

Sunset, Oasis State Park, Portales NM, October 30, 2011

Situated 6 - 1/2 miles north of Portales NM off NM 467, Oasis State Park is a modest park set among cottonwood trees and shifting sand dunes on the expansive, grassy plains of east-central New Mexico, not far from the Blackwell Clovis site.

Oasis State Park, Portales NM

• Verizon cell phone service - good signal
• Verizon EVDO service - connection is reasonably fast.
• Go to Oasis State Park website
• Go to Oasis State Park on my Night Camps map
• Check the weather here

Nights I've camped here

Karl Blossfeldt Plant Studies

Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932) was a German instructor of sculpture who used his remarkable photographs of plant studies to educate his students about design in nature. Self-taught in photography, he devoted himself to the study of nature, photographing nothing but plants for thirty-five years.

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