Ten Most Beautiful Words

 "Ten of the most beautiful words: Beautiful in meaning and in the musical arrangement of their letters"-W.J. Funk (1883-1965)

 Last week before I take apart the pots.   Last of the blooms. Some of them, anyways.  There have been no words to describe the roses this year. Magical.

 Some will survive for a few more weeks. The Smoke Bush , these days, is frothy in its almost-fall-gear.

 Smokey still  hold vigil at the top of the hill.Like he does every summer. Well into fall. But the pots are slowly disintegrating. Against the sun. That hot hot sun.

 So many are still beautiful. Reminded me of something I read this week about beautiful words.....

  Between 1925 and 1940  Wilfred J Funk, poet, lexicographer and president of Funk and Wagnalls, made a list one summer of the ten most beautiful words in the English language.Words that flowed and generated an image along with the word. 

 He compiled the following TEN most BEAUTIFUL words .....

                                                                     Mist

                                                                 Luminous

                                                                 Dawn

                                                                     Hush

                                                                Lullaby

                                                          Murmuring

                                                                    Tranquil

                                            Chimes
                                    
                                                   Golden
                                
                                                       Melody

  “Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”    ― Henry James

Photographs 2017. Quotes on W.J. Funk from "1000 beautiful things, 1948"