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I would play "Snow" from Loreena McKennitt's A Winter Garden: Five Songs for the Season. Her wonderful voice gives the song—and the entire album—a wonderful old world feel. What a great reminder of how precious the earth is, how magical nature can be, and of the quiet that snow can provide (even in nyc), allowing us to take a pause and remember the simplest of pleasures cannot be bought. The lyrics are below, from the poem by Archibald Lampman.

(And red is the perfect color for EVERY season!)

SNOW
Lyric: Archibald Lampman (1861-1899)
Music: Loreena McKennitt
White are the far-off plains, and white
The fading forests grow;
The wind dies out along the height,
And denser still the snow
A gathering weight on roof and tree,
Falls down scarce audibly
The meadows and far-sheeted streams
Lie still without a sound;
Like some soft minister of dreams
The snow-fall hoods me round;
In wood and water, earth and air
A silence everywhere
Save when at lonely intervals
Some farmer's sleigh, urged on,
With rustling runners and sharp bells
Swings by me and is gone;
Or from the empty waste I hear
A sound remote and clear
The barking of a dog, or call
To cattle, sharply pealed,
Borne echoing from some wayside stall
Or barnyard far afield;
Then all is silent and the snow falls
Settling soft and slow
The evening deepens and the grey
Folds closer earth and sky
The world seems shrouded, far away.
Its noises sleep, and I as secret as
Yon buried stream plod dumbly on and dream.