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.
- 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
- Wednesday, November 17, 2010 - Oasis State Park, Portales NM
- Thursday, November 18, 2010 - Oasis State Park, Portales NM
- Friday, November 19, 2010 - Oasis State Park, Portales NM
- Saturday, November 20, 2010 - Oasis State Park, Portales NM
- Sunday, November 21, 2010 - Oasis State Park, Portales NM
- Sunday, October 30, 2011 - Oasis State Park, Portales NM
- Monday, October 31, 2011 - Oasis State Park, Portales NM
The Trespasser's Eyeshine
She put the butt end of the flashlight against her forehead, just above the space between her eyebrows. It was something she'd learned long ago about seeing at night. A light shined from there would reveal nothing of herself to a trespasser, and from that spot on her forehead a beam would go straight to the retinas and return to her own eyes the characteristic color of the trespasser's eyeshine. If it had eyes, of course, and if they were looking at her directly.
Prodigal Summer, Barbara Kingsolver