autumn and adieus

Have had weird cheesecake cravings and found these delightful mini ones in Pike's.

Can anyone identify these berries?  They grow on a tree in my neighborhood.  They're gorgeous, but I've never seen these before.

Had my final concert with the Rusty Chord this weekend. 

 

It was a fun concert, bittersweet as we've had such a fun time singing together.  As the theme was autumn and it's difficult to not be hit over the head with the metaphoric meaning of autumn as the most of the audience (and some of the singers) are using walkers, have hearing aids and are dealing with all manner of aging issues.  Anyway, to counteract all the melancholy of that and my farewell, at the end, the singers exited to "Autumn Leaves"....and tossed handfuls of leaves into the audience as they left the auditorium.

Leave 'em laughing, indeed.