Daily Postcard: A mule deer buck lounges in the snow Thursday morning in an arroyo near the backyard of a residence in Los Alamos. The mule deer is indigenous to western North America and named for its ears, which are large like those of the mule. Source: wikipedia. Photo by Verena Welser

A mule deer buck nibbles on plants in snow Thursday morning in an arroyo near the backyard of a residence in Los Alamos. Photo by Verena Welser