Darwin the Dog and His Friend Gordon.

Darwin the Dog and His Friend Gordon.

Jan 16, 2025

The most obviously beautiful thing about this is the vast Scottish sky and the vivid morning colours and the fact that it looks like a painting by Turner, even though it was taken on an iPhone. But actually there is more hidden beauty. If you squint, you will see two little black dots, and they are Darwin the Dog and his best friend Gordon. Both are slightly other, in the best possible way. Gordon is regarded with slightly quizzical looks by his home pack and Darwin Dog has his old mucker Stan the Man, but Stanley is old now and wants a quiet life and doesn't see the point of running around at top speed or doing mad wrestling.

Gordon, however, loves those things. So our two slight eccentrics have found each other and have enormous fun dashing about and plunging into the river and generally being impetuous and unstoppable.

It really is one of the most beautiful friendships I ever saw.

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