Yesterday behind the library on the one rare spot of bare grass were 6 or 7 sleeping elk.

Thank goodness they are not library patrons...

They looked like statues.

The elk are seldom in the actual town area. The park has worked to keep them on the fringes the last few years as tourists don't know to stay clear of the elk and there have been incidents where tourists have been attacked.

These elk were so deeply asleep as to be in a stupor but I did use a zoom lens and I was nowhere near this close to them. 

The other photos include a deer on our lawn one morning.

Views on the trip to and from and at the off-leash dog park - and of course a dog or two.