This five-movement work celebrates the long Canadian winter, setting texts by the composer, Sara Teasdale, Lucy Maud Montgomery (of Anne of Green Gables fame), and Melville Cane. Each movement depicts a different time of day, beginning with the cold darkness before dawn in Timid Star and concluding with the evening turning into dusk and then darkness in Snow Toward Evening. The music conjures up vivid images of a cold and crisp winter and of swirling, dancing snowflakes.