omg you have the rebel xt?!?! that's what i'm getting
i LOVE those pictures, especially the last two. and especially the last one. i have yet to take a tripod somewhere with pretty running water and take a picture with creamy flowingness. may i ask what setting you had on that last one (if you could even remember). i think the one time i tried to do it, everything burnt out. i know you have to have a longer exposure but then it makes everything else white. humm.
i also love the story, although i admit i was hoping you'd say it was a fuzzy baby smokey mountain bunny.