Particle Research

For my racing level I'd like to include a few particles.
 Just a few falling leaves:



Some water splashing/coming off the water mill:
 

And finally, for pretty-ness's sake, some little fireflies for the evening:


For practice I completed a tutorial that explained how to create dripping water. As you can see in the video below I modified it a bit to be more like a small stream of water rather than a few drips.