It's spring here!

 There are volunteers hauling boxes of produce from a truck to a long table...here in my "senior" apartment complex.

 Bounty and Soul is part of our Manna Food Bank, helping provide the less affluent of our community with food.  Here is Sally (a resident) on the left, talking to a couple of volunteers from the Food Connection, another great not-for-profit organization.  They bring food in meals already prepared but that weren't served from various kitchens in conference centers or other dining sites in the area.  These prepared meals would have been discarded otherwise.

Volunteers talk with our elder residents while the tables are set up with the free produce.  Bounty and Soul will offer the whole Black Mountain community the same vegetables the next day at St. James Episcopal church.

 We just draw numbers out of a hat to determine what order we go through as a line to pick up the fresh vegetables and fruits.  This system is a great improvement over the old one, where first come got first served.  We came close to some fights and certainly some harsh words as to who was in line ahead of whom, in the past.

Friends Nancy and Sharon had their springtime pink outfits on the cheer everyone up.