Python tkinter code doesn't run when inside a function

def display_rain():
    rain_image = Image.open("./images/rain_jpeg.jpg")
    rain_resized = rain_image.resize((250,250), Image.ANTIALIAS)
    rain_tk = ImageTk.PhotoImage(rain_resized)
    rain_label = tk.Label(root, image = rain_tk)
    rain_label.grid(row = 0, column = 0)
    rain_label.pack()

display_rain()

The code runs fine when outside of a function but doesn't appear to run at all when inside it. I've tried restarting Python and renaming the function.

Your image is being garbage collected. This works.

import tkinter as tk
from PIL import Image, ImageTk


root = tk.Tk()
root.geometry("800x600")

#store all images in this dict so garbage collection will leave them alone
#it doesn't have to be named "images"; it just has to be a dict
images = dict()


def display_rain(row=0, column=0):
    #create and store the image if it doesn't exist
    if 'rain_tk' not in images:
        #unless you are making mips of this image you should probably  
        #~make it the proper size and get rid of the resize part
        image = Image.open("./images/rain_jpeg.jpg").resize((250,250), Image.ANTIALIAS)
        #you can add a name to reference the image by
        #this makes it cleaner than accessing the dict directly
        images['rain_tk'] = ImageTk.PhotoImage(image, name='rain')
        
    #make and return the label, in case you want to grid_forget it or change the image
    label = tk.Label(root, image='rain') #instead of image=images['rain_tk']
    label.grid(row=row, column=column)
    return label
    
#you can easily display this wherever you want by filling in the row and column arguments
#as an example, this would be displayed at row1 column2
rain_lbl = display_rain(1, 2)
      
root.mainloop()