yellow saxifrage

It seems that my Sunday’s are my busiest day of the week. As normal I will attend Church in the morning. This Sunday I did not attend the Inuktitut speaking services, however I kept bumping into people who I had met at those services the week previous. I told them I would be there next time! I did go out for brunch with several people to the Nova Hotel, some sort of fellowship thing. I had eggs, sausage, home fries, toast, and beans. It was called “La Quebecoise”. Later in the afternoon I went to the Baffin Correctional Centre with Captain Rus to evangelize. Really we were providing company and the resources to have a bible study. I think the inmates I appreciate us visiting them even if we do sing “Amazing Grace” out of tune. I have trouble singing in Inuktitut. One inmate joked that it would be like speaking chinese.
On the way in to the Baffin Correctional Centre I had picked some flowers, as I am wont to do –I am collecting local plants so I can learn more about the Tundra’s Flora, and I was quite close to an enclosure (tall fences with barbed wire) containing several inmates, and, a correctional officer standing outside. The guard asked if I had picked the yellow flower. Yes I said. “That is illegal”, he replied, “ You are not allowed to pick the territorial flower. If they see you with the flower inside they will keep you inside”. Was this a warning or a piece of advice!!! The flowers in the heart pocket of my red plaid shirt so i wasn’t worried and surely he was joking because the security seemed relaxed.
As it turns out the yellow flower I picked was not the territorial flower which was really the Purple Saxifrage, see here: http://www.assembly.nu.ca/english/about/saxifrage.html
In the evening, I missed the other inuktitut service because I went to a potloch instead. Yay, my second social event in Iqaluit. Almost all there were volunteers at the Humane society so after dinner we went down to do some volunteering. I went too and held husky puppies, I think. I also walked some dogs.