Some Mytillini architecture. At left,
my favorite church, the late 19th-century Church of St. Therapon. At right,
the elaborate doorway to my dream house. Below, another interesting church,
alongside a mural displaying the island's biggest export, and a restoration
in progress - amazing what a little paint can do.
Horse dung? Modern art? No, it's the
petrified "forest" of Lesbos, one of only two in the entire world.
Here, a few choice 20-million-year-old rock-like stumps.
