You can be led down the garden path, get off the beaten path, take the path less traveled. Everywhere are references to paths in literature and philosophy.

Nothing pleases me more than a Sunday's drive up Alba Road in Ben Lomond on a warm sunny day.

With each new season, we start fresh with high expectations for a bountiful harvest of vegetables and mouth-watering fruit, fragrant flowers to pick for bouquets and healthy plants to attract beneficial insects to the garden. As the months pass, it seems one problem after another crops up.

Rock cod season is under way, halibut are biting — but most anglers couldn’t care less, as salmon fishing sizzles.