Views from Mildendo Photo Gallery by Colin Clarke at pbase.com

Views from Mildendo

If you have read 'Gulliver's Travels', about Liliput and its capital, Mildendo, you
will recall that the walls of the city were some two feet six inches in height and at least
eleven inches thick. The city was an exact square, and its two main streets divided
Mildendo into four quarters. The emperor's palace - called Belfaborac - was (naturally)
in the center of the city.

Can you imagine, again, how objects so small for we average sized humans seem
so gargantuan to the Liliputians. I thought the square, and the two
feet and a half, and the eleven inches, were useful guides for my reports from there.

Thank you, Jonathan Swift, for your discovery (1726) of this intriguing land.

Palmetto	Sago Palm 1	Forest Secret
The Universe of the Vine	Onion 2	Prickly 'Pair'
Forbidden Fruit #2	Butterfly Wing 2	Rose Bud & Dewdrop
Ruffle	Forbidden Fruit	Reading Jonathan Swift
Life Support	The Parlour	First Flowers
Cast Iron Plant Aspidistra elatior	Caught in Fall	Sturt's Desert Pea 'Watercolor 2'
Sunflower Macro 3	Lily Macro 1	Sunflower Macro 2
Sunflower Macro 1

Giancarlo Guzzardi		23-Feb-2009 11:20
beautiful search and pattern

Pawel		18-Jan-2009 15:35
All images here are splendid :)! BV

Soenda		15-Jan-2008 12:01
What a splendid organizing principle for a gallery. I've been thinking about things like that---"what would Lilliputians think about...my comb? or...that grape?," ever since I read the book as a kid. Maybe even before when Thumbelina was read to me. I like the enormous dew drop best of all.

Jeff Real		12-Jan-2008 20:25
A beautiful gallery with wonderful mix of color and monochrome ~V~

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