Lights on bright no brakes

The past ten years Lights on Bright No Brakes has led me on a wild ride.  What wasn’t planned, just happened.  This new logo honors an adventure that began when a newly-published French cookbook met an amateur chef de cuisine-wannabe who lived in Colorado’s high country.

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2025

You may already be taking a deep breath or two before facing 2025 but let's wrap up Year 2024 first. This delicious-looking Dark Chocolate Bundt cake with Hot Frosty icing, a dessert for any holiday occasion, is as tasty as it looks. You need that frosting recipe....

season’s end…..Wait, there’s apple cake

One of our last hikes, a birthday celebration, to the Pike Creek Cookhouse in Ashcroft. We four women are volunteer Rangers. Our bookends? Ever supportive husbands.

REMEMBERING AN ASPEN SUMMER

“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald Salade de Chèvre Chaud Since our High Country temps are playing in the 80's this week, 'crisp' doesn't come to mind. Despite that, it's time to turn the page. 'Crisp' will soon arrive,...

what time do the bells ring?

Mondays at the majestic Maroon Bells. With Donna Grauer Last Monday I was at the Maroon Bells watching as tourists disembarked from the shuttle bus that brought them the 8 miles from Aspen Highlands to the magnificent Bells. More than 300,000 visitors come to be awed...

You’ll find Lights on Bright No Brakes a minimalist version of its tired self.  As for me, I’m still me.  That’s why I suggested to Joy Weinberg, my designer, we skip the ‘about me’ business.  She wasn’t having it.  We compromised, agreeing to this streamlined version.