Traditional style colour tattoo of a spotted green and yellow frog beside a red rose on a stem, on the calf.

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Spotted frog and rose on a lower leg

Traditional · Calf · Colour · Photo

The tattoo shows a spotted green and yellow frog with its head turned towards a red rose on a brown stem. Bold black outlines define the frog, rose and stem, with flat solid fills in green, yellow, orange, brown and red. The design sits on a lower leg against a plain background, with the frog filling the lower left and the rose at upper right.

Traditional Calf Frog Rose Stem Spots

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Sit closer, there, where the wind can't get under your coat. Up at the top of the pass, past the last cairn, there's a crack in the grey rock, and in it a rose grew up on a stalk as thin as a wet hair. Nobody planted it. The carters said the snow put it there, and the carters say a great many things after their second cup.

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Below the crack, in the spring pool where the meltwater collects, lived a frog with spots like the shadows of leaves. He was the only frog in the valley who looked up instead of down. Every morning he hauled himself onto the flat stone under the stalk and sat with his chin lifted, the way a man sits waiting for a letter that is late.

The rose never came down to him, and he never managed the climb. Seven summers he tried, and seven times he slid back into the pool with his legs spread and his dignity bruised. The shepherd's wife at the hut by the road told him he was a fool. He agreed with her. Then one autumn, when the first frost came down white on the cairns, the rose bowed its red head over the stone, and he turned his green face towards it, and that was as close as either of them ever got.