adapts to the Gulf Coast's embrace. In Mobile, where humidity hangs heavy and seasons blur into long stretches of warmth, Black Limba's golden brown heartwood and its dramatic grey-to-black veining find a surprising kinship with a city built on water and weathered beauty. Unlike the mountain-dry air of Missoula, Mobile demands that craftspeople understand moisture movement at a cellular level—selecting veneer that has been properly dried and stored so that those striking dark streaks remain stable rather than becoming fault lines under subtropical stress. Rosebud's sheets arrive here ready for that conversation between wood and climate, and as they continue their journey toward the tree-lined workshops of Mockingbird Valley, they carry with them the proof that careful sourcing bridges any distance between a West African forest and