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Capturing Marie Aull's Legacy: From Garden Sanctuary to Inspirational Artwork

Fine Art Photography At Aullwood Gardens In Dayton, Ohio

Marie Aull wanted to donate her 40-acre garden to the National Audubon Society. The Audubon Society turned the garden into the first educational center outside New York or California. It is now the national educational center for The Audubon Society.

Hellebous flower at Aullwood Audubon Center Dayton Ohio by Dan Cleary of Cleary Creative Photography
“Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark.” Rabindranath Tagore

Marie Aull Lived At The Garden Until She Was 104

Marie Aull’s only condition was to be allowed to live in the garden until her death. She lived to be 104. Marie oversaw the planting and maintenance of the garden. She also put note cards with quotes from philosophers and the Bible on the community bulletin board.

“Art at its best discloses hidden meanings. It tells more than the eye sees or the ear hears or the mind knows. With the aid of the symbol, man not nearly remembers the vanished past, he takes in the emergent or the potential future.” Lewis Mumford

Inspired by Hand Written Notecards

This series of photographs was inspired by handwritten notecards. I used these notecards to create photographs that matched and combined with each other.

“Never underestimate the value of a fact. It may one day flower into a truth.” Henry David Thoreau
Marie Aull - there's a power that makes us brothers by Dan Cleary of Dayton Ohio
“There is a power that makes us brothers, No one goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others, comes back into our own.” Edwin Markham - American Poet
Orange Day Lilies with note card by Dan Cleary in Dayton Ohio
"The friend who can be silent with us in the moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not caring, not healing, and face us with the reality of our powerlessness, that is the friend who cares." Henri Nouwen
Marie Aull - When one tugs at a thread by Dan Cleary in Dayton Ohio
“When one tugs at a single thread in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” John Muir
Marie Aull - To Accomplish Great Things by Dan Cleary of Dayton Ohio
To accomplish great things, we must not act but also, dream, not only plan but also, believe. Anatole France
Marie Aull - for faith is not a concept by Dan Cleary of Dayton Ohio
For faith is not a concept. It is not a form. It is a baptism in the living mystery of our flowering life, and it must be renewed as life itself is ever renewed.
Marie Aull - A friend is a present by Dan Cleary of Dayton Ohio
A friend is a present you give yourself. Robert Louis Stevenson
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