Black and grey realism tattoo of a rose with water droplets on the back of a hand, with a tribal pattern on the forearm above.

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Realistic rose with water droplets on the hand

Realism · Hand · Black and grey · Photo

A large rose with layered petals fills the back of the hand, with a cupped bloom in the centre and outer petals fading toward the knuckles and wrist. The shading is soft and detailed, with fine highlights on the petals and small raised droplets of water rendered in pale grey. A dark tribal-style pattern is visible on the forearm above, and a black beaded bracelet and metal cuff sit at the wrist against a dark background.

Realism Botanical Hand Rose Water droplet Flower Tribal pattern

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Now sit down, the lot of you, and mind the lamp, because this is the tale of Mrs Agnes Pardoe and the rose that grew on the sea wall at Porthennick. Nobody planted it. The old men said the gulls dropped the seed, and the old women said it came up through the cracks the year the Melody went down with all hands. Black as a coal sack it was, its petals folded like the lapels of a good Sunday coat, and every morning it wore a row of rain on it, pearled and cold, even when the sky above the harbour had not wept a drop.

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Her son Tom was out on the Cassandra that winter, and she went up to the wall each dawn to count the drops. Ten for a safe night, and she would walk down to the quay with a shawl over her head and tell the fishmonger the weather was turning. Eleven drops one morning, then seven, then none at all. The rose had gone quiet, and so had the bay.

On the third day she took her kitchen knife and cut the bloom at its stem, wrapped it in a page of the Parish Gazette, and carried it down to the slipway where the boats came in. She didn't say a word. She simply laid it on the wet stones where the tide reached and waited. The sea came up over the slipway, lifted the rose, and carried it out past the breakwater, rocking it on the swell like a small dark lantern.

Tom came in on the Saturday with the nets torn and the hold half empty, and he found her still standing on the slipway, soaked to the bone, water running off the peak of her shawl. Ask anyone in Porthennick and they'll tell you the rain has never once stopped falling on that wall since, though the sky over it is blue as a gull's egg. Mind the lamp now, and off you go home.