Spring showers bring, rainbows!

Aren't rainbows amazing?  I'm almost 28, and everytime I see a rainbow, I get excited like a little kid.  We had storms roll in Friday night, and in the midst of their rolling and rumbling, I looked out my window to see this:


Double Rainbow Beauty

Growing up in a religious household, I was taught that the rainbow was a sign from God, to Noah, of his promise that life on Earth would never again be destroyed by a flood. 

In mythology, Iris, was the greek goddess of the rainbow, and the messenger of the Olympian Gods.  She was often represented as the handmaiden and personal messenger of Hera. Iris was a goddess of sea and sky--her father Thaumas "the wondrous" was a marine-god, and her mother Elektra "the amber" a cloud-nymph. For the coastal-dwelling Greeks, the rainbow's arc was most often seen spanning the distance beteween cloud and sea, and so the goddess was believed to replenish the rain-clouds with water from the sea. Iris had no distinctive mythology of her own. In myth she appears only as an errand-running messenger and was usually described as a virgin goddess. Her name contains a double meaning, being connected both with iris, "the rainbow," and eiris, "messenger."

The Chinese believed that the rainbow was a slit in the sky sealed by Goddess Nuwa using stones of five different colours.

The Irish leprechaun's secret hiding place for his pot of gold is usually believed to be at the end of the rainbow.

In Silesia, an obscure area of eastern Europe, it was said that the angels kept tons of gold there and that only a nude man could obtain the prize.....

So no matter where you come from, or what you believe in, the rainbow is significant to everyone for one reason or another.....  Even the nude men scowering Europe trying to find angels secret stashes of gold.