In Riverside my basil plant Bazil meant a lot.  I watered and pruned and poured adoration, and I kept the poor thing alive way past when it should have been placed in the compost.  Dace brought home a small basil plant for me, but I picked up another, from Trader Joes, same as before.  Thus enters Bazil the Second.  This time around I have a much nicer house and more to love.