This Oxnard tattoo design features a strawberry because Oxnard, Calif., is known for its strawberries! Oxnard is even home to the Strawberry festival, where you can try Strawberry nachos, Strawberry salad and hundreds of other delightful concoctions.

One of the things I love most about Oxnard is the back roads that cut through agricultural fields. If the freeway is jammed, or even if I just what to take the scenic route, I take the back roads. It might be a round-a-bout way to get there, but it feels more like an experience.

I’ve lived in Oxnard for 10 years and Ventura for 3 years before that. Even though I didn’t grow up here, it really is the hometown of my heart. I’ve never gotten a tattoo, or even considered it (I hate needles), so creating this design is like my consolation tattoo.