jeff tessier photography

Nutcracker @ Whitehern. & Liz.

There are a lot of things I love about Elizabeth, and the crazy stuff we did last night with three of our kids and a couple friends, inside the storied walls of Whitehern Historic House and Garden, made me remember more than a couple of those lovable things about her.  Liz is putting on a Nutcracker-themed programme at Whitehern to coincide with the annual performance of The Nutcracker at Hamilton Place (guests can attend the programme and then walk down the block to attend the ballet).  And she, of course, conceived the idea of re-creating the story of the ballet inside Whitehern, using our children, photographing it, and using the photos in her PowerPoint presentation for the programme.  Who wouldn't think of that?   And it was, perhaps, a bit ambitious.  But it was a ton of fun and the images, while not my best work, are at least passable and often quite touching.