Cookiebaker I agree with you and I love the "silence" outside during a snowfall. I don't know if the snow provides a sort of insulated muffling of all of the noise or it is just the absence of cars on the road, but it is a sound of silence quite different from any other. I also love the sound of the surf and seagulls at the shore. I spent my childhood years at the Jersey shore for vacations and it is such a familiar "feel good" sound for me.