The optometrist removed a piece of rock from my left eye today. It had been in there for 16 days. So painful. My regular doctor had looked at it and thought I had a broken blood vessel (there are several blood vessels visible at the moment). But it wouldn't go away and my friend Ahmed from Oman insisted I go to the eye doctor, which I finally did this morning. He numbed the eye and coaxed me into keeping it open while he removed the particle using a long cotton swab. The relief was almost instantaneous.

The rock was lodged right between my iris and cornea. I could see something there, but didn't realize what it was. I have spent a lot of time staring at my iris the last two weeks. This got me thinking about eye colors. From my genealogical research, I have been able to identify the eye colors of the following direct ancestors:

Homer: hazel

Parents:

Lee: blue

Carolyn: hazel

Maternal Grandparents:

Harold: blue

Anna: hazel

Great grandparents:

Sheldon: blue

Ernest: brown

Colonel: blue

Great great grandparents:

Isaiah: gray

Philip: blue

Elijah: blue

Great great great grandparents:

Ebenezer: blue

Hiram: black

Homer and Carolyn.