Riding Rainbows After a Storm

This Bearded Iris makes her royal appearance in my garden, after a long night of rain or maybe after a cry.  Deep purple peeks out.  Tightly wound she has a potato-looking tuber at the roots.  I love that image.  I have a few of these that I never planted.  They appear as if by magic out by the front steps in the spring.  Supposedly they require monthly fertilization and water every 5-7 days but not this gal. She appears year after year all on her own.  She's named after the Greek Goddess Iris, a female messenger to the Olympian gods. With wings on her shoulders, the Goddess Iris rides a rainbow linking heaven and earth, carrying a pitcher to serve nectar to the gods.  Sometimes she visits Hades.  I know that place.  I wonder what her message is to me?  A purple iris symbolizes wisdom and royalty.  I vow to gather wisdom as a gift from the gods in the form of this plum-colored perennial rooted right in my front yard.  First cultivated in 1749 BC in Egypt, I am humbled by this ancient beauty who rides rainbows after a storm.