Middle Prong of Little Pigeon River in the Greenbrier section of Great Smoky Mountains National Park is as quintessential a mountain river as I can possibly imagine. Flowing down the steep slopes of the north face of the Smokies Crest Ridge between Laurel Top and Old Black as a collection of individual diminutive creeks with names like Eagle Rocks Prong, Buck Prong, Lost Prong, Peck's Branch, Shirt Tail Branch, Millfield Branch, and Chapman Prong, it collects Ramsey Prong and Porter's Creek on its way to meet West Prong and East Fork to become the Little Pigeon. Its addition to the French Broad is not insignificant; its beauty in all seasons, awesome. In fall, the golden light of a waning day reflects off the surrounding forest and lights a fire to the flowing waters. It is then, especially, that I love to stand along its edge. A focal length of 19mm, wide-angle to be sure, gave me the angle-of-view I wanted. An aperture of f/20 provided depth-of-field and a shutter speed of 0.5 second at ISO 400 gave me an overall medium exposure. The chosen ISO kept my shutter speed faster than a full second so that I could avoid more silkiness in the flow than I wanted. Middle Prong opens my heart to the haunting rush of mountain water.