I have to say that this is a remarkable shot caught at exactly the right moment:

Too early and you’d not see that fire down the trunk. A few microseconds later, that tree could have been blown apart like a bomb as the heat of the strike could have instantly boiled the sap. That, of course, would end up with a instant truckload of either matchsticks or toothpicks.
(H/T: Sunny Skyz)
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Co-founder of GraniteGrok, my concern is around Individual Liberty and Freedom and how the Government is taking that away. As an evangelical Christian and Conservative with small "L" libertarian leanings, my fight is with Progressives forcing a collectivized, secular humanistic future upon us. As a TEA Party activist, citizen journalist, and pundit!, my goal is to use the New Media to advance the radical notions of America's Founders back into our culture.