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Show t by Teri Gomes I i Park City's best and brightest A little drum roll please. Dum Da Da Dum. It is time for the naming of the best and the brightest Park City has to offer this season. We're talking, of course, about The Lights. The first category: Best Lights and Decorations by the City Persons (we have Mothers as well as Fathers here), The award goes undisputedly to the Miners Hospital Library building. Hundreds of little white lights dance in bare-branched trees, and greenery on windows and doors sets off the wonderful building that has come to represent the best Park City and its preservation efforts have to offer. A solid second place to the lights over Main Street. They are somehow brighter, tighter this year. And the wrapped lightposts help to set the mood. The honors for the Biggest and Brightest (and the most traditional in the six winters I've spent here) is The Star. High atop the mondo condos at the Fairway Village, out Park Meadows, way, The Star can be seen from most anywhere in town. Developer and longtime resident Enoch Smith has been credited with bringing this treat to town. Thanks, Enoch. Best lights by a Shop in Town was really tough for me, but I think the whimsical side in me leans toward the fantasyland feeling created by all the tiny trees lit up in front of Snug. It is a word I generally reserve to describe puppies and kittens, but dammit, those lights are cute. A close second I would say goes to the Timberhaus. The lights, the greenery, all done to show off the best lines of the building, help show off the fine skiwear in the windows too. Nice job Matt, Helen and sons. And just on the heels of the Timberhaus is the new Mountain Rose. An elegant, sophisticated pair of windows nicely displays the new lines of merchandise. The award for the Best Lit Fish was really very simple. Like a lonely trout in your stream of consciousness, it's hard to pass by Ryan's bar on Main Street and not smile. The Trout Brothers have clearly set themselves apart from the pack (or should I say school?) with their lit fish and highlighted bobcat. I just can't help but wonder what the place will look like for St. Paddy's Day. Nice goin', Dana and Evan. This award is a free-floating one, because I'm not exactly certain where to place the credit. But the two tall, well-lit trees on the golf course next to Adolph's restaurant look terrific from all directions. Thank you to whoever decided to share that with the town this year. z On to the neighborhoods. Admittedly I did not travel every street in eve ry subdivision of town at night at the proper hours to judge the overall undisputedly-you-light-up-my-life-and y our-front-walk-awards. But on my normal nighttime ; travels on a limited party circuit this past week I earner across these gems you should try and Best Tii.tjir Tree Outdoors with Millions of Little Lights goes to t h e Nipkow residence on Webster Court. Here comes tha t i word again, but it really was cute. Best Tennts-1 Jailed Tree of Court time Past goes to the Dawsons, also at i W ebster. Up in Old Tow. n there is a solitary tree lit up on what appears to be Yhi i top of King Road. Really pretty. By now, even asual readers of this column know I live out in Park Meiadows. Ergo I spend most of my time driving around .there. Therefore, I'm going to have to dish out the maj( )rity of awards in this area. Look, nobody ever said life wi is fair. As you may rtjcall from columns past, the Parkers of Red Pine Court i on weeks ago for the Earliest Display of Lights. And t'hey are still blinking out my back window now. Way to go, Danny. There was fil 3rce competition this season between the Stedmans on U ttle Kate, the Badamis on Little Kate and the Reids on Liucky John. I really liko Ithe white lights around the door frame at Jess and Debb y Reid's. And the blinking top half of the Stedman's Ueo accents all the bright lights around their house. But the overall award for the house most resembling gi ngerbread has got to go to Craig and especially (hst;'s be honest here) Susan Badami. The log cabin housej.'with the framed white-lit windows and white-lit lanlpiosts and multi-colored tree lights really is special. , , But it stril (e s a vein with me what is missing here is an award afteri-.'my own heart, an award for the best intentions, ft, would be the grand prize, say, dinner for four at the Cllaimjumper. The award would be given to the family which had the best intentions this year, planning once again to decorate the outside of their house but, once again, running out of time and choosing to just push he tree into the front window instead. Since I've already explained these awards are in no way fair and just and equal, I'm not surprised to find the winner of " t his award none other than The Gomes family. If r m going to pick up the tab for dinner it might as well be fo r people I know. Hope yoiaf holidays are merry and certainly bright! i l |