David Cope

Carmel, or Carmel-by-the-Sea as many call it, resides just south of Monterey, California, and at the north end of the near one hundred mile stretch along Highway 1 through Big Sur. Carmel is home to the Mission San Carlos Borrom o del r o Carmelo, the second mission to be established in Northern California. One of the two towers of this mission contains nine forged bells that when rung together can be heard throughout the area. These bells may be the reason for the disproportionate numbers of wind chimes in Carmel, both private and for sale in the many shops that line the main streets there. Whatever the reason, Carmel, a major destination for visitors from around the world, also provides more great restaurants, art galleries, and hotels than most cities many times its size.

Chimay is a census-designated place (CDP) in Rio Arriba and Santa Fe counties in New Mexico. The name derives from Tewa for a local landmark, the hill of Tsi Mayoh. The CDP is unincorporated and includes many neighborhoods, called plazas or placitas, each with its own name, including El Potrero de Chimay -the plaza near Chimay 's communal pasture-and the Plaza del Cerro-plaza by the hill. The cluster of plazas called Chimay lies near Santa Cruz, about 25 miles north of Santa Fe. The deciduous trees that lie in this area down from the rocky terrain hills that surround the CDP all seem to have weather sculpted cruelty dug into their bark that seems more like a gallery than a place for shade.