Anecdotal Observatory
The Mark
Woolly Piggy
The woolly piggy (one) stood in the mud as the wuthering pigeons (too many) took off. It was cold. Where did they go? Don’t know. The woolly piggy stayed. Schorfheide/Berlin, January 2022.
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Mark (noun, English): a small area on the surface of something that is damaged, dirty, or different in some way.
Mark (noun, German): Limit, Borderland, March (as in soldiers marching).
Mark Brandenburg (geographical name, German): A historical landscape in nowadays eastern Germany and western Poland. Colloquially the current German federal state of Brandenburg is sometimes called the Mark or Mark Brandenburg, but the Mark no longer exists as such.
Danmark (geographical name, Danish): Flatlanders’ borderland.
Observatory (noun): 1) a building or location used for observing terrestrial, marine, or celestial events. Also, an institution whose primary purpose is making such observations. 2) a situation or structure commanding a wide view.
Anecdotal (adj.): 1) based on or consisting of reports or observations of usually unscientific observers. 2) of, relating to, or consisting of anecdotes. / Anecdote (noun): Apparently origins from the Greek a-, meaning not, and ekdidonai meaning to publish. I.e. unpublished. Most definitions of the word anecdote emphasize that it is a short revealing narrative, focusing on a person or an incident——often amusing, but not necessarily.