PADUA, Italy, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- An Italian mountaineering group protesting "narcissistic" acts in the wilderness said it placed a garden gnome in the place of a stolen Virgin Mary statue.

This year’s Masters gnome is the familiar old man with a long white beard, wearing a blue cardigan with a white shirt and tie, a white Masters bucket hat and blue-and -green plaid pants.

But recently, they found a kind of "napping" they'd never dealt with before -- gnome-napping! A rickety old fence normally blocks Lisa Soneda's view of her next door neighbor's backyard.

An exceptionally rare garden gnome believed to be more than 100 years old has been found in an overgrown garden in Staffordshire. The 12ins statue, complete with red pixie hat and green breeches ...

A patron carries a Masters gnome, a one-foot high ceramic figurine, during a practice round in preparation for the Masters golf tournament at Augusta National Golf Club Tuesday, April 9, 2024, in ...

This year’s Masters gnome is the familiar old man with a long white beard, wearing a blue cardigan with a white shirt and tie, a white Masters bucket hat and blue-and -green plaid pants.

This year’s Masters gnome is the familiar old man with a long white beard, wearing a blue cardigan with a white shirt and tie, a white Masters bucket hat and blue-and -green plaid pants.

This year’s Masters gnome is the familiar old man with a long white beard, wearing a blue cardigan with a white shirt and tie, a white Masters bucket hat and blue-and -green plaid pants.

This year’s Masters gnome is the familiar old man with a long white beard, wearing a blue cardigan with a white shirt and tie, a white Masters bucket hat and blue-and-green plaid pants.

This year’s Masters gnome is the familiar old man with a long white beard, wearing a blue cardigan with a white shirt and tie, a white Masters bucket hat and blue-and -green plaid pants.