We have had several vigourous thunderstorms recently, with ground strikes near the house.  One strike took out the barn’s lighting, another we knew had hit close by (if the window goes white with light….sort of a dead giveaway).  But we couldn’t decide where, as there was no visible damage. 

Then I noticed that the daylilies…those gorgeous daylilies with at least one bud stalk for every fan…beneath the West Meadow fenceline looked oddly brown today.  The fence is electric wire, the gate is a metal t-post, as is the corner post, and the daylilies run between those two and have grown up above the bottom wire, which is not live*.  I think you can guess the rest.  It is the oddest thing, though.  It looks exactly as if a six inch wide band of herbicide was applied, with the bottom wire in the middle.  Anything within three inches is brown, anything that was directly touching is crispy, charred, and otherwise carbonized. 

*Usually!