the coastal bluffs, another Carmel emerges—this one in Indiana, where the same discerning instinct for material integrity drives residential and commercial projects alike, and where Black Limba's golden-brown heartwood, threaded with those grey-to-black veins that deepen over years of aging, meets a Midwestern design sensibility that prizes honest warmth without ostentation. Here the climate shifts but the specification logic holds: architects and cabinetmakers working across Carmel's refined suburban corridors trust Rosebud's flitch-matched sheets to carry that whisper of dark figuring into kitchens, libraries, and feature walls where restrained drama is the point. What the California coast achieves through ocean light, central Indiana achieves through proportion and craft—and in both cases the veneer darkens slowly into its setting, becoming more itself with each passing season. As the narrative of Black Limba moves further into the interior, toward the planned communities and elevated elevations of Castle Pines, the question becomes not whether the wood belongs but how its figuring adapts to