Home again

We returned home for a brief pit stop before Berlin. Our balcony
"garden" was thriving in our absence - maybe we've been fussing over
it too much. Absence makes the stalk grow stronger? Anyway, instead of
blipping our pelargoniums I turned my attention to the birch outside
our apartment - I heard it may be condemned as it's apparently too
close to the building. That seems a shame.