In the evening of the last day of the summer season at Brooks Lake Lodge and Spa, northwest of Dubois, everyone was joking about how they’d gotten all four seasons in a single day. The morning sunshine had transitioned to cloudy skies and light rain by the afternoon Monday.

That’s when they noticed something special arching across the sky. It was the first time anyone had seen anything like it at Brooks Lake Lodge.

“When the rain eventually turned to snow, a rainbow appeared,” said Sara Mills, a photographer and the social media manager of Brooks Lake Lodge. “I personally have never seen anything like that, and my coworkers all reported the same thing. It was quite a phenomenon.”

Mills ran outside to get some photos of the “snowbow” before it disappeared. It was a serene scene as the co

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