Florida\u2019s quote of the day<\/p>\n
“The sound of the chainsaw was just like a knife in your heart.”<\/p>\n
— Beth Reynolds<\/p>\n
Beth Reynolds walked from her home to the nearby Dollar General to buy a Diet Coke.<\/p>\n
She planned to stand in the hot sun Saturday in St. Petersburg, possibly for hours.<\/p>\n
The clerk pointed to Reynold\u2019s camera and asked what she intended to photograph.<\/p>\n
A nearby slash pine, visible from the store\u2019s parking lot, she said. Workers were set to cut it down that morning. And along with it, an intricately woven American bald eagle\u2019s nest high in the tree\u2019s needly canopy.\n<\/p>\n
\nReynolds planned to document it, to bear witness and collect data about the nest.<\/p>\n