When Taylor Gordon walks down the runway, life just feels right. The 12-year-old Pasco girl says wearing stylish clothing, being in the spotlight and holding her head high "makes me feel good, like it's something I want to pursue."

Richland's Jim McCabe has got an offer for Pasco's Doc Hastings.

The white roof of Walla Walla's Orchidaceae greenhouse hides a riot of color.

Ruben Villasenor has his back to the tall bay mustang that arrived at his barn in mid-January.

Lin Damrell and Vicki Moddrell may be skilled knitters, but it's quite possible that they're just as passionate about practical jokes.

The Cold War and potentially groundbreaking scientific experiments co-exist 22 steep steps down into a Rattlesnake Mountain hillside.

Michael Durst was surrounded by a sea of bobbing, craning young heads on a recent night at the Robert and Elisabeth Moore Observatory in Pasco.

WALLULA -- Most drivers going to Walla Walla likely zoom right by Wallula.

Richland's Christina Abrams is a grandmother and an aspiring truck driver.

Mitch McColm and Eli Shoemaker have something in common despite their age difference.

Hermiston -- Music may be good medicine, yet for a while the residents of Hermiston Terrace Assisted Living Center were too under the weather even for some lively tunes to help.

In some ways, Cody Hand is a typical 11-year-old.

Open the door of a bowling center on a weekday afternoon and the sound registers first. Cantaloupe-size balls thunking on hardwood lanes and seconds later crashing into the pins, sending them flying. Teammates enthusiastically exchanging whoops and high fives after a strike.

PROSSER -- The "Windyville" sign hanging over the driveway leading to Wendell Weld's place in the foothills of the Horse Heaven Hills north of Prosser sways lightly in the November wind.

There's something unique about the smell of leather, whether it's cow, goat or ostrich.

WALLA WALLA -- The French bowling game pétanque is one of the only games you can play with a glass of wine in your hand.

A handmade diagram of the human body hangs in teacher Bethany Olson's first-grade class. The body parts are labeled in red letters -- head, shoulder, arm, fingers.

A handmade diagram of the human body hangs in teacher Bethany Olson's first-grade class. The body parts are labeled in red letters -- head, shoulder, arm, fingers.

Darts is anything but point and shoot.

Michelle Price typically reads five books at one time and already has finished 56 this year.

Ainsley Gettis felt a little nervous when she showed up for her first day of Fall Ball Lacrosse camp at Columbia Park on a sunny Saturday morning.

DAYTON -- In 1912, Dayton farmer Steven Boldman and his wife, Blanche, purchased a Victorian house on the bank of Patit Creek to raise their four daughters.

For empty nesters, Wade and Linda Robertson sure have a lot of birds around the house.

During the day, Jen Pedersen manages a call center and takes care of her 7-year-old daughter.

RITZVILLE -- Clara Reimer knows each stitch she puts into her quilts will help someone who needs it.

Their eyes dart around the curved racing track and their hands clutch controls that remind you of a pistol grip.

Two shaggy-haired boys sat cross-legged on the sidewalk in front of Yoke's Fresh Market on Road 68 in Pasco, skateboards by their side.

Power tools may not be the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about a veterinarian's office.

Workers at some wineries labor for only food and board -- literally.

PROSSER -- Everything in William Zabel's basement is covered in a fine creamy dust, almost like someone dropped a giant bag of flour in the center of the room.

PENDLETON -- Long before Capts. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark made their famous Northwest trek through Oregon and Washington, the Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla tribes inhabited Eastern Washington and Oregon territories.

PENDLETON -- For Norman Conner, balancing on a narrow steel beam hundreds of feet in the air is not as scary as it seems.

For a few special Tri-Citians, putting on brightly-colored grease paint and performing silly gags is more than a way to make a buck.

Nicholas "Nitro" Senter toddled up to the gate, his eyes beaming through a massive helmet.