Relaxing in the Shade

I first saw the small herd of four or five White-tailed Deer from about a quarter mile away as they made their way slowly down the slope on the other side of the creek. By the time I was directly across from them, they had found a depression filled with tall grass and were lying down in the shade of a tree, so all I could see from where I was standing were their heads:

This set of photographs was taken along the SSG Morningstar Boardwalk on the Salado Creek Greenway Trail on Monday, November 11, 2013.