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Hope you'll like this image. Thanks in advance for your comment

Edit: to avoid some possible misunderstanding, I like to provide you with some additional information:

This image was captured with a Nikon D5000 body and a AF-S Micro Nikkor 85mm 1:3 5 G ED VRII lens (Nikon call its macro lenses 'Micro'). Because of poor lighting conditions (both dark and windy weather), I've chosen for an optimal shutter time versus an optimal f-stop. The highest possible f-stop number therefore was 14.3 (a higher number was in these conditions not possible). The distance to the subject was 0.6 m. You can check on THIS SITE, that the DOF was from 0.59 m (near limit) to 0.61 m (far limit), so a total DOF of only 0.02 m (an extremely shallow DOF is a common effect in macrophotography).

I got used with this phenomenon. Therefore I used a manual FL-setting (Focal Length-setting) of about 0.61 m (somewhat farther than the real distance to the subject). By using this 'trick' I achieved that the range from 0.6 - 0.62 m was depicted clearly. Everything outside this range is not a lack of focus, as suggested below by Ted (ted3020), but just BOKEH!