April 25, 2006

• Odd Eyes

  When the weekly_Photo_Challenge, hosted by Rigel_Hyperion,
  was announced last Friday, on the topic of “The Strange, the Weird
  and/or the Funny,” I decided to just hang in here and keep my eyes
  open. 

  I could have posted one of the pics I took at the spring a few winters
  ago when one of my neighbors spread a few potatoes on the ice for
  traction, along with the dirt they had apparently been growing
  in.  That was both weird and funny.  I had another shot, of a
  snowmachine parked by the gas pumps at the local lodge, pulling a sled
  loaded with half a dozen gas cans.  It struck me funny at the
  time, even though I knew it was probably someone who lived off the
  maintained road system and off the electrical grid, who needed the gas
  to run a generator.
  
  But I decided to take the challenge for real and just be on the lookout
  this week for weirdness or comical reality.  Life was pretty
  mundane for the next few days, until Doug noticed and pointed out to me
  that our blue-eyed cat Albion is turning into an odd-eyed cat. 
  That’s unusual enough to be sorta weird, and to some people the sight
  of any cross-eyed cat is funny.

  The condition is known as heterochromia iridium and can be caused by
  trauma, but is also an hereditary trait, particularly in Siamese cats,
  of whom there were surely a few in Albion’s ancestry, as evidenced by
  his crossed blue eyes and the ginger tabby “points” on an otherwise
  white body.

  For comparison, the photo below shows Albion before the change.  It was captured about two months ago.

   

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