Red

During the same morning walk just a few steps further facing the other direction:

This is the plant which the snake of thorns is part of:

Another close up photo from the city I visited end of January 2020.

I name this photo snake of thorns:

and prick...

and here a larger view...

You might have guessed already that the photo of the "stone alley" was taken at the "Côte de granit rose", the pink granite coast, in Northern Brittany in France. The red stones would have been also suitable for the topic "red". 

Trail between the stones... you know where it is?

To conclude the photo series on echinacea, once more the peacock butterfly: 

Not only butterflies but also bees and bumblebees: 

And a peacock butterfly is joining them: 

And this is also the solution of the first riddle.

Here we have another visitor for you to guess: 

and from the side: 

One of the butterflies visiting the cone flower is the small tortoiseshell. Here a few photos with different positions of the wings: