Wild Honeysuckle

The honeysuckle has been called "the wild wanderer of the South." With its roots firmly in the ground, the honeysuckle's vines travel with fragile blooms and sweet liquid. In much the same way, the verses in this collection of poetry offer a taste of Alabama. The beauty and meaning expressed in "Beachcombing," "Spring Burning," and "First Flowers" translates easily to those outside the state.Betsy Barber Bancroft recalls the playfulness of the girl who searched for the "ox Alice" and "dandy lions" in grandmother's garden. Beautifully descriptive verses capture the hillside where her grandfather chose the "first-found flowering of plant and tree" to give to his wife every spring. That hillside, "tangled and deserted now," is a sweet memory traveling through time and geography to share an "exuberant love of God and His variety of blossoming."