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I can't recall why we drove out to Red Rock Park but it's on the list of things to do when visiting Sedona Arizona.  It's a  286-acre nature preserve and environmental education center with stunning scenery. Trails throughout the park wind through red rock formations and along side Oak Creek banked by green meadows and native vegetation. As we wound our way through the park, rounding each bend in the road revealed a new and different sweeping panorama with colorful mesas and cliffs lit up by the sun. At the northeast area of the park, things got weird. You know how you sometimes see a speck on the computer screen and not knowing if it's on your screen or a flaw in the video you are watching, you swipe the screen with your finger to try and get rid of it? I suddenly had the same urge to reach up and swat the black and red beetle suspended in front of me. Then I realized the beetle was sitting on top of a distant mesa and was bigger than Godzilla. "What the he