Black and white photo of a fine line laurel wreath tattoo on the inner forearm, with leaves curving up from crossed stems.

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Small laurel wreath on a forearm

Fine line · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A small laurel wreath made of thin leaves on curved stems sits on the inner forearm, with the stems crossing at the bottom. The linework is fine and even, with no shading, and the leaves are drawn in simple outline. The photograph is black and white, with the arm against a pale background and a dark top behind it, which keeps the tattoo as the focal point.

Fine line Botanical Forearm Laurel Wreath Leaves Branch Stem

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Snow had closed the lane below Ravensknowe by four, and by six Edith Carr was counting what the cellar had left her: two casks, a crate of pickled onions, a sack of flour gone soft at one corner. The range ticked. Upstairs the only other guest was sleeping off a day on foot, his canvas case of seed packets propped against the door like a sentry.

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He came down at seven looking for hot water and stopped at the kitchen door. The bay tree stood in a tin bucket by the range, pruned to a single trunk, its leaves dulled by a winter's soot. "That's a old variety," he said. "Hardly anyone grows it north of Lancaster." Edith told him it had been her father's. He had won the fell race at Hebden the summer she was born, and the steward had pressed a wreath of bay onto his head, and he had come home and planted the leaves in a bucket because he said a man should keep the thing that made him look foolish for one afternoon.

The guest, whose name was Tobias Lunn, did not laugh. He sat on the flour sack and asked if she had any of the leaves dried. She did, in a jar on the high shelf. He said a bay leaf steeped in barley water would do more for a cold than anything in his case, and he was right about that, though it was the only thing either of them was right about that night.

By morning the lane was clear and the sun had turned the drifts to glass. Tobias had gone up the valley with his seeds. On the bar lay a small paper packet folded twice, labelled in careful capitals: BAY, FROM THE RACE. Edith tipped the bucket toward the window and the new leaves caught the light.