April showers bring May Flowers!
If you insist, but I think they bring muddy jeans, muddy boots, muddy floors and the pure joy of shrugging off winter's heavy coats and cold hands and feet.
No more shoveling snow, now I can shovel compost!!! Plant seeds and watch them grow, watching black berries and apple tree blossom out, I can almost taste the rich taste of blackberries, the delicate sweetness of raspberries and wine berries, and the tart and sweet taste of blueberries. I relish the sheer triumph of coming home with a coffee cup full of tiny wild strawberries.
Shall i ramble about comparing life with a summers day? Ok, I will spare you because I am well off my topic. And my topic was that I wondered who had authored the saying "April showers bring may flowers." And now that I know I will share what knowledge I have gleaned from Wikipedia.
Perhaps everybody heard this rhyme at some point, generally having been taught it at an early age by parents or teachers. It's a popular thing to say and hear around springtime, but one thing you might not know is where the rhyme originated from. It reaches back to the mid 1500s, although earlier use of "April showers bring May flowers" probably existed.
In 1557, a man by the name of Thomas Tusser compiled a collection of writings he called "A Hundred Good Points of Husbandry." In the April husbandry section, he wrote:
Sweet April showers
Do spring May flowers
As you can see, the rhyme was originally a short poem. However, there is meaning behind the words, as well.
"April showers bring May flowers" is a reminder that even the most unpleasant of things, in this case the heavy rains of April, can bring about very enjoyable things indeed -- even an abundance of flowers in May. "April showers bring May flowers" is also a lesson in patience, and one that remains valid to this day.
By Chaplain (Lt. Col.) Milton Johnson, Garrison Chaplain's Office
April 12, 2012
~~~~by Thomas Tusser
A fool and his money are soon parted.~~~a quote from Thomas Tusser
