Realistic colour tattoo of pink hibiscus flowers, green leaves and two bees across a person's upper back.

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Hibiscus flowers and bees across the back

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Large hibiscus blooms with pink and coral petals, green leaves and curling vines run down the back, with two bees rendered beside the flowers. The shading is soft and smooth, with fine highlights on the petals and dew-like dots that add depth. The flowers fill the right side of the frame, and a smaller bloom sits at the lower left on a pale, softly lit background.

Realism Botanical Back Hibiscus Flower Bee Leaf Vine

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

By the time the kettle sang on the Marjorie Lane, the hibiscus trailing from the gunwale had opened three blooms overnight, coral as a fishmonger's awning, and two bees were already working the stamens. You watched them from the tiller while the lock keeper shouted something about the water level at Bascote. Your father had painted that flower on the stern the summer before the cut was dredged, and he never once admitted the bees were his idea too.

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The lock keeper's daughter, Nell, came running along the towpath with her hat in one hand. The bigger bee had got into the wheelhouse and was bumping itself silly against the window glass, and she wanted it out before it drowned in the bilge bucket. You went below for a jam jar and an old postcard of Blackpool. The trick, she had read in a library book, was to let the thing walk onto the card and carry it to the open hatch slowly, the way you would carry a lit match across a deck in a gale.

Halfway through the lock the bee lifted off, ignored the hatch entirely, and settled on the same petal it had left at dawn. Nell laughed. You didn't. Your father used to say a barge carries whatever you forgot to unload, and you had hauled this one all the way from Braunston without ever naming it.

You pushed the tiller over and let the boat drift out of the lock, leaving the postcard face up on the roof where the sun could dry the damp from it. By Hawkesbury the flowers had gone over, their petals folded like tissue paper, but the bees had stayed on, two small gold things minding the garden as if it had always been theirs.