The warm weather brings out more than leaves from trees and garden hoses from sheds. A whole new population appears. Most of them glow a ghastly shade of white as if sequestered in fallout shelters all winter. The Sun goes to work and clothes start falling off of like wrapping paper. Soon there's little left but bright Summer dresses and scruffy cutoffs.

Joining this newly awakened fray are the young. The school kids. You feel like you've seen them before but you don't remember them being so tall and gangly, limber and loud, brash and bewildering. Kind of like the potatoes stored and forgotten under the sink last fall. They've changed, sprouted, seem to be getting into everything.

This is when you are re-introduced to the styles. Maybe you once had the crazy 'do, wore your pants backwards, or sported self-made Bic ink tattoos. Still, it's different, refreshing. Yesterday's spotting was brown hair with a bright green *splat* shape on the top. A Nickelodeon gloop recipient. Not so much a hairdo as a mildew.

Which got me wondering...why no organic hairdos? The Chia pet look. Real corn rows. Gourds. Seems like it would be pretty easy to sprinkle a handful of grass seed into a fuzzy 'do, poke a pumpkin into dreads, or mix bean sprouts with the green hair mousse. Want to intimidate adults? Grow a crop of summer squash, they'll avoid you like the plague.

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