Black silhouette design of a curved botanical wreath made from grasses, leaves, berries and dandelion seed heads on a white background.

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Botanical wreath silhouette design

Botanical · Black and grey · Flash

The image shows a solid black silhouette of a curved wreath formed by a branch with grasses, leaves, small berries and dandelion-style seed heads. The shapes are flat and filled, with no shading, and the stems taper into sprigs at the top right and bottom right. The design is shown in black alone on a plain white background, with an open space in the centre.

Botanical Wreath Grass Leaves Branch Dandelion Seed head Berry Flower

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Morag had the wreath half-finished on the kitchen table when the relief boat was late again. She had woven it from bramble whip and cold cliff grass, tucking in the dandelion clocks she'd picked from the wall of the lamp-room yard, though the seeds had gone to fluff and drifted onto the oilcloth.

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Her father, Iain, had kept the light on Scarra Head for thirty-one years and never once let a ring of anything hang on the door. "Wreaths are for funerals and weddings," he'd say, "and this is neither." She hung it anyway on the iron hook above the lamp-room door, where the gulls could not reach the berries.

The boat came in the morning with a new keeper, a young man called Dougie Ross, who counted the paraffin twice and asked whose wreath it was. Morag said nobody's. He turned it in his hands, found the one berry still green, and said the weather would break by Thursday. He was right, and she was glad someone had said it aloud.

That evening she walked the path to the cliff edge, pulled a clock head from the grass and blew. The seeds went out over the water, each one on its own small parachute, past the black rocks and past the beam sweeping round above her. Her father would have called them lost. She watched until the dark took them, and for once it did not seem a sad thing to watch something go where it was blown.