Why I love rosemary and basil: They survive

Travel is bad for plants because my husband is even less of a plant person than I am. Here is what my rosemary and basil plants I am growing as I learn to garden looked like when I returned from Washington D.C. I was gone for five days.

I love rosemary because apparently it doesn't die easily. I love basil because of the following pictures. The one on the left is what the basil looked like when I returned. I watered it promptly, and just five hours later the basil already had started to recover. I love that. Basil is a fighter.