True, fall has its nice sides, too (just not all the pumpkin spice craze everywhere)
We do have basil (and rosemary) in our front, the balcony only gets a sliver of sun during a brief time window per day, so unfortunately not good for basil. We used to have mint in with the purple flowers, you know how mint usually takes over everything? And in prior year both of them fought it out equally, this year the mint gave in and died.