This image was taken during a walk in yesterday’s chilly rain shower, the kind of jaunt that may be appreciated only by outdoor photographers. The rain continued overnight and into the early hours of today, reminding us of the famous ancient proverb “April showers bring skunk cabbage flowers.”
Unfortunately, when it comes to skunk cabbage flowers, they stay hidden in those purple spathes. But, you get the poetic idea. Speaking of that, some of you pedantic viewers might be offended over our taking a tiny bit of poetic license with that proverb.
Okay: it originally was the following couplet published in 1610 by the famous English poet “Anon.”: "Sweet April showers/Do spring May flowers." That rhyming rationalization has since been decoupled and corrupted into today’s “April showers bring May flowers.” (Brooklin, Maine)