Thanks for all the comments, both public and private, on the puzzling focus of my previous shot http://www.pbase.com/helenpb/image/147925110 !

This was the alignment of the berries, but the first picture was taken looking from the right of this image. It's clear that the small OOF berry in the first picture was in front of the rest, and the berry with the drop in that picture was a bit further back than the third and focused berry. Whew!

This was also taken with a different lens with slightly different settings in-camera as kindly suggested by Longbachnguyen, and out of about 20 exposures this was the best I could do to get all three berries in focus, more or less, hand held. I think with a tripod I would have far better results, especially with the 105mm lens.