Looks like a Jacaranda - or as they might say around here: Jacaranda mimosifolia

Kay - You're too funny!!! I'm sure I won't be done planting til I am "planted" as well! Very well put Kay! lynxe - P.S. I didn't plant them all in the same bed because I didn't have room to! So the hosta, Leah Abbott and Hall's Pink went into the small bed I have in front of my shed and the other 4 had to go in one of the raised beds in the middle of the back yard....... I saw another Daylily I was tempted by at my corner store awhile back. There was only one and I'm thinking that I should have got it but it's probably gone by now anyway. It's name was "Canadian Border Patrol" and it was 9.99 plus tax...........

We "steam" our Chesapeake Bay blue crabs vs "boiling" using big pots with inserts in the bottom to prevent the crabs from touching the water. I do a "boil" every Christmas that I learned from a Portuguese lady I worked with like you described. Adding the sausage is delicious. "Time Bandit" is from the "Deadliest Catch" series on the Discovery Channel. I love that show - now even their catch is famous! Thanks for sharing.

I thought it strange, too. Found this explanation at the linked message board. Since I say "valay", I guess I'm of the lower class...lol. "Found this online. Sounds like both are used. I remember watching "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" and Marilyn Monroe saying valet with the "T" sound "The word is an English one and is correctly pronounced "Vall - ett", although mispronunciation as "Val-ay" is common." according to http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=valet , "[Middle English valette, from Old French vaslet, valet, servant, squire, from Vulgar Latin *vassellitus, diminutive of *vassus, vassal. See vassal.]" So which is right? I have always pronounced it "Val-ay" as well as everyone around me. I know people who have been corrected from saying it "Vall-ett" Also, the dictionary.com pronunciation includes both "Vall-ett" and "Val-ay". Yet another regional difference? I am going to delete that line for now, unless someone has something contrary to the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. Arilakon 12:38, 10 January 2006 (UTC) AFAIK, according to etiquette, the person valet is correctly pronouced VAL-ett. This is the pronunciaion you would find in Mrs Post's book. In American English, the implements (and the fellow who parks the cars) is val-LAY. Americans who would call Jeeves a val-Lay are looked down upon, even by other Americans. Quill 21:54, 10 January 2006 (UTC) That seems not to be the case. American Heritage (a generally conservative dictionary) lists "val--ay'" and "val'-ay" as the primary pronunciations, followed by "val-it", without comment (the 4th edition is peppered with notes regarding nonstandard and "disparaged" uses and pronunciations). This may well be a British/American divergence, but to simply say that "val-ay" is "not considered correct" (as the article still does), is incorrect or at least incomplete. Elmo iscariot (talk) 14:26, 30 October 2008 (UTC) As noted by others on this page, the explanation is that the pronunciation of the word valet is class-based in British and U.S. English (see U and non-U English). Upper-class people use pallet, others chalet. Since there are more of the latter than of the former, Bartleby's statement that the pronunciation chalet is "common" is true in more than one sense of that word. Xxanthippe (talk) 01:39, 2 November 2008 (UTC)." Here is a link that might be useful: source