Washington, DC, USA

May Day! May Day! The Time has finally come. Please give us our government back. Please give us our lives back. Impeach! Impeach! We knew it was going to be bad. We didn't know it was going to be this bad. [2018]

Brawley, California, USA

Sea levels are rising about 1 inch every eight years. Why? Global warming. Everyone knows about melting glaciers and ice sheets. Fewer people know about the expanding volume of ocean water as it gets warmer. The sea-level line on this silo near the Salton Sea is already a part of the historical geography of planet Earth. [1988]

Jamestown, Rhode Island, USA

Maryland is to Chesapeake Bay as Rhode Island is to what? Narragansett Bay, of course. Let's say thank you to the continent's original inhabitants for adding some bling to the English language. [2019]

Key West, Florida, USA

"Something is going to change!" Whenever you see the surveyors plying their craft, you know they are drawing the line between yesterday and tomorrow. Yesterday: Memorial Day. Tomorrow: Labor Day, a day to honor workers like this. In between: three months of summer, a season when "something is going to change!" [2018]

Ravenswood, West Virginia, USA

After World War I, today came to be known as Decoration Day. The main ritual was taking flowers to the cemetery to decorate the graves of loved ones who had lost their lives in war. In practice, flowers were put on all family graves. After World War II, Memorial Day came to be the replacement moniker for Decoration Day. [2017]

Karpata, Bonaire, Caribbean Netherlands

It's Memorial Day week-end: time to hit the water. While you are having fun, though, remember all the military men and women who have died while serving their country: Your Country. [2017]

Rock Sound, Eleuthera, The Bahamas

There is astronomical summer and there is meteorological summer. Today is neither. But, it is the real first day of summer: the beginning of the Memorial Day week-end! It's the tomorrow you have been waiting for, and it will last until Labor Day. All you have to do is step across the threshold. [2014]