Cherry blossom leg tattoo from thigh to ankle
Botanical · Thigh · Colour · Photo
A long cherry blossom branch runs down the outside of the leg, from the upper thigh to the ankle, with clusters of pink five-petalled flowers and buds. The branches are shaded in dark brown and grey, giving depth against the skin. The pink blossoms dominate the colour, and the tattoo follows the leg's curve in a winding composition.
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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction
No, leave the knife where it is and look at the green under the bark, Wren, because that's the bit that matters. The cambium, your grandfather called it, the living skin between wood and bark. It has to meet the stock's green or nothing takes, and you'll have wasted a good April morning. He taught me that the spring the blossom came out on the old Morello across the lane and the whole valley smelled of almond and wet earth.
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The branch we were grafting had come off the Hollis hedge, a wild cherry that had grown wrong. It had put out one shoot that wandered along the top of the wall, dropped down past the gatepost, and ran into the ditch like it had somewhere better to be. Mr Hollis wanted it burned. Your grandfather took it instead, wrapped it in damp sacking, carried it across three fields inside his coat, and said nothing to anyone about it for a week.
The first graft failed. The second held, though nobody thought it would, and the wandering limb flowered the year the north wall of the churchyard came down in the storm. Pink clusters hung over the gap in the stones like a curtain nobody had asked for. The petals blew into the ditch and the water ran pink all the way to the mill.
So bind it tight, love, and go easy with the twine. Whatever you're carrying home in your coat, it'll want somewhere to go.
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