Is This My Missing Gnome

Very strange thing happened recently. My Dad and mom told me about a gnome that "wound up" in their garden. That's strange enough.

He was in a pot outside...

with this flower...

and he looks just like the gnome that mysteriously came and went from my garden.
http://karenmakesstuff.blogspot.com/2012/05/where-did-this-gnome-come-from.html

What's going on here?