I had planned to spend today hanging around Sedona, taking pictures of blue sky and red rock. Except that the clouds blocked one and dimmed the other. So instead, I decided to spend the day driving around the eastern part of the state, seeing what AAA classified as, "Scenic."
Much of this part of the state is at a high enough altitude to be pine forest, and I get plenty of that in Colorado. But then, on US-60, you descend from Show Low to a place called, "Globe," and you're back into the serious desert.