All of a sudden last week I noticed these flowers were blooming alongside the main road. 

  
Cool weather flowering plants are still so strange to me when I’m used to a thick layer of snow on the ground, especially because these flowers remind me so much of the first wildflowers to bloom along the Little Cottonwood Canyon road that signal the end of the ski season is near. 

Here, it’s just the start of fall that has brought cooler temps and more wind.