the wood meets a landscape defined by dramatic contrasts—the Absaroka Range darkening against open sky, the Yellowstone plateau shifting between seasons—and finds in that setting a visual kinship that few timbers can claim. Here in Cody, where craftsmanship honors the scale of the surrounding wilderness, Black Limba's golden brown heartwood threaded with grey to nearly black veins offers designers a surface that mirrors the land itself, geological in its depth and unpredictable in its beauty. The streaks darken with age, gathering richness in the same patient way that Wyoming light deepens a timber-framed interior over decades of mountain winters. It is this slow convergence of material and place that carries the wood's reputation still further into the inland Northwest, where in Coeur d'Alene