

Rainbow over Mountain Center
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Driving home to Idyllwild on Monday evening, Sept. 5, Kristin Goffman saw this beautiful rainbow near Mountain Center. “What an amazing sight! A full bright rainbow and then slowly the double faint rainbow showed up just behind it. The picture doesn’t show the second rainbow but it does capture the joy on the kids’ (Garrett Goffman, 11, and Samantha Goffman, 5) faces,” Goffman wrote. Photo by Kristin Goffman

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