This weekend is Frog Fest in Waynesville, Mo. In case you’re wondering about it, here’s the explanation from the Pulaski County Daily:
The discovery of an unusually shaped rock formation on the Waynesville Hill overlooking Historic Route 66 provided an opportunity for an earlier spring event. When the road was widened from two to three lanes, part of the hillside was removed by Missouri Department of Transportation road workers and that exposed what’s now known as the Waynesville Frog.
“When the state highway did the blasting on the road, there was a rock sticking out and everybody said it looks like a frog,” Stinson said. “The only event we had at that time was Old Settlers’ Day and it was notoriously hot. We decided to start a new festival and decided that frog would be something nobody else would have. We sort of worked the celebration around that and we even named it after the frog, and we’re always the first festival every year.”
Events include a Frog Race, a pie-throwing contest and a kiss-the-frog fundraiser. Here’s a photo of the famous frog rock.