Realistic colour tattoo of pink cherry blossom flowers with grey shadows spread across the upper back near the shoulder blade.

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Cherry blossom flowers on a shoulder blade

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Five cherry blossom flowers in varying angles and sizes are tattooed across the skin, each with pink petals, dark centres and fine stamens. The petals use soft gradients and blended shading, with grey shadows beneath them that give a three-dimensional, lifelike effect. Pink and purple tones dominate against the natural skin tone, and the composition scatters the blooms diagonally across the shoulder blade.

Realism Botanical Back Cherry blossom Flower Petal Stamen

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Brother Edmund, the petals came down all through Tuesday's vespers, and I had to sweep the cloister twice before the bell. You will think I am fussing over a tree, but the old cherry by the cistern is the only thing on this hill that has not asked me for anything since Lent.

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I have been thinking about the cutting your father brought up from the valley the year before the fire. He wrapped it in wet sacking and carried it three days on his back, and the abbot said it would never take in such cold ground. It took. Every April it goes pink from the bottom branches to the top, and then the wind comes off the moor and the whole crown lets go at once. The petals do not drift so much as skid. They lie on the wet flags in little pale rafts, and where they sit the stone looks grey and deep, as if each flower had left a shadow behind it.

Yesterday I found one petal caught on the rim of the water trough, curled like a fingernail, and I thought of you saying that a thing is only really gone when nobody is looking at it. So I have pressed it between the pages of the Psalter, the one with the cracked spine, and I am sending it with this letter. Do not open the envelope in the post room, the brothers read everything.

Come at Easter if the roads allow. The tree will be finished by then, but the stones will still be grey where it fell, and I would like you to see that before the rain takes it.