Blue Eyes

1953, Marion, Illinois. The young couple (the girl is 19 and the boy is 22) are agog with delight over their first child -- a baby boy with a winning smile and miraculous blue eyes that gaze luminously out of the black and white photos of the day. Like most first-time parents, they can't seems to take enough photos of their amazing child -- the beautiful offspring of a visually striking pair.

Blue-eyed people came from one common ancestor, a baby born with a gene mutation that gave him or her blue eyes in a world of brown-eyed humans. Imagine the surprise of the parents!

I admit, I'm fascinated  with people with blue eyes, an interest apparently shared by Elton John (and probably many others).

Blue eyes
Baby's got blue eyes
Like a deep blue sea
On a blue blue day


-- Elton John and Gary Osborne