Traditional style tattoo of a purple umbrella above a yellow heart-shaped tag reading Northern Downpour Sends Its Love, on a forearm.

Umbrella and heart tag on a forearm

Traditional · Forearm · Colour · Photo

A purple umbrella with small grey clouds and blue raindrops sits above a yellow heart-shaped tag carrying the words NORTHERN DOWNPOUR SENDS ITS LOVE in black lettering. Bold black outlines frame flat colour fills with light shading on the umbrella and tag. The tattoo is photographed on a forearm against a dark surface, with pale tape visible on the skin.

Traditional Forearm Umbrella Rain Raindrop Cloud Heart Lettering

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The rain came down on Skerrow every afternoon that spring, and Mags Tulloch stopped asking the sky for anything else. Her husband Dan had gone out past the breakwater on the Morning Star before the cloud lifted, and the harbour master's boy said the gulls were sitting low on the water, which meant nothing good.

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She took the black umbrella off its hook behind the door, the one with the snapped spoke, and walked down to the quay with it open over her head. Nobody on the harbour wall laughed at her. Half the town was out there holding umbrellas of every colour the chandler had ever sold, because that was what you did when the boats were late. You stood where the rain could find you and let it.

Dan came in at dusk, grey to the eyebrows, with a crate of lines and no fish. He found her still under the umbrella, soaked to the knees, and he did not say sorry for worrying her. He only took the handle out of her hand and held it over both of them.

Years later, when the lighthouse keeper's grandchildren asked why the town tied yellow card hearts to the railings, Mags told them the rain carried everything out over the water and brought it back again. She tapped the nearest tag and said the sea sent its love in the only shape it had, wet and grey and far too much, and that was reason enough to keep an umbrella by the door.