reveal themselves most dramatically under the filtered canopy light of the Carolina Piedmont, where Chapel Hill's designers discover that the grey to nearly black streaks running through the golden brown heartwood shift in visual weight depending on ambient luminosity — a behavior quite unlike what the same sheet exhibits under Chandler's unrelenting desert sun. Here the color tends to darken with age in a way that feels sympathetic to the university town's own layered patina, the veneer acquiring depth as Carolina seasons cycle through their humid summers and temperate winters. The sapwood, pale greyish to yellowish brown and not clearly demarcated from the heartwood, gives Chapel Hill millworkers a blending advantage at transitions that more starkly divided species cannot offer — a subtlety that will matter even more as the veneer travels south toward Charleston, where the air grows heavier still and the design vocabulary shifts toward something altogether more