This afternoon, Wild Bill of Wild Bill's Organic Patit Street Garden, Dayton, and I had our seasonal over-the-fence-visit. Bill's in the planning stages of his 2011 organic summer garden. In a couple of months he'll plant various leafy greens, corn, potatoes, cucumbers, green beans, beets, carrots and culinary herbs.

I love having a big garden like Bill's in the neighborhood; it's an eco-friendly kind of thing. Even Bill and my bees, butterflies and dragonfly kanoodle over the fence.

In the summer, we share a family of Dayton bats that pay a visit to our yards each evening. The chubby fello...