There is a valley north of Mingenew on the road to Mullewa with mesas on either side, a lone hill, cattle—a kind of Arizona or New Mexco but lower, flatter, greener and (at this time of year) more yellow. It feels to me like a kind of rift valley, like the San Luis Valley of southern Colorado and northern New Mexico. Looking on a map now I see it is also where a lot of the water of the Coal Seem area runs out, taking that flowered soil with it.