Botanical tattoo of a tree with black roots and green-olive foliage, with a trail of olive stars running up the shoulder, on a woman's upper body.

Tree with roots and star trail on shoulder

Botanical · Shoulder · Colour · Photo

A tree with a black linework trunk and branches, spreading roots and soft olive and green wash for the canopy sits on the upper chest near the shoulder. A trail of small olive-filled stars with black outlines and tiny dots rises diagonally up toward the shoulder blade. The background is dark and out of focus, and the soft lighting highlights the skin around the tattoos.

Botanical Shoulder Tree Root Star Dot

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Marguerite, the oak by the lych gate has finally dropped its last leaves, and Mum says that means the rain will come early this year, so bring your wellies to the wedding and don't you dare wear the cream shoes. I have pinned the seating plan to the kitchen door where the cat cannot reach it. Your Uncle Tobias is seated beside the cake, which I told him was a kindness and not a punishment.

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You asked in your last letter whether I was frightened of marrying a man who has never once planted a seed. I was, a little, until last Tuesday, when Edwin walked me down to the orchard in the dark with a torch and a spade and showed me the stars he had carved into the bark of the old pear tree, one for every winter we have known each other. He said the roots go deeper than anyone expects, and that a tree is only the top half of a promise.

So come early. Bring the photograph of Grandmother on the step. I will be the one with the wet hem, standing under the tree where the stars begin, waiting for the first drops to fall through the branches and onto my hands. Love, Hester.