Mount Rushmore in South Dakota
© guillaumelynn/Shutterstock
Mount Rushmore in South Dakota
Happy Presidents Day! Perhaps the lines at the Mount Rushmore National Memorial will be a little longer today. It’s hard to imagine a more appropriate place to celebrate this holiday. How do park workers keep this monument looking good? One trick is to keep water out of the cracks of the sculpted portion of Mount Rushmore. And that’s done with simple silicone sealant, disguised with a sprinkle of granite dust to hide the seal. Do the tabloids know that even these towering presidents have had a little work done?
Related Images
An old farm in the Shetland Islands, Scotland
Firefall at Horsetail Fall, Yosemite National Park, California
For Waitangi Day, the Pancake Rocks on New Zealand’s South Island
Wildflowers in bloom at Lost Dutchman State Park in Arizona
Shoreline near Tofino on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Cefalù on the Tyrrhenian coast in Sicily, Italy
La Digue, an island in the Seychelles
A rider hunts with an eagle in the Altai Mountains of Mongolia
Bing Today Images
Horsetail Fall in Yosemite National Park, California
Feb 20, 2026
Humpback whales and dolphins, Hawaii
Feb 20, 2022
Gray wolf with flock of ravens in Finland
Feb 20, 2019
