Syracuse receives Black Limba into a landscape where grey skies are not a weakness but a context, and here the wood's own grey-to-black streaks and veins find an unlikely kinship with the overcast light that filters through workshop windows and showrooms across the city—what read as dramatic contrast under Sun Valley's high-altitude sun now settles into a quieter, more intimate dialogue between material and atmosphere. The golden brown heartwood, rather than projecting outward, seems to deepen inward, absorbing the diffused northeastern light in a way that rewards close looking and rewards it again as the color darkens with age, matching the patient tempo of a city that has always understood how to build for the long term. Rosebud ships these sheets from Louisville already knowing that the moisture-rich climate of central New York will interact differently with the veneer's cellular structure, which is why the manufacturing tolerances hold so tightly—because craft at this level means accounting for the environment your material will inhabit, not just the one it leaves. And that same principle of environmental intelligence follows the wood further still, westward across the country toward Tacoma, where the Pacific Northwest introduces yet another register of grey, another humidity, another set of demands that Black Limba is uniquely prepared to meet.