Caballo!

My Mami Luisa told me that when I was learning to talk my first word was 'caballo.' Apparently my love affair with horses started before I could talk. When I was four, we were living on a finca in Buenos Aires. I used to wait for the gauchos to water their horses at our well. I would point and yell 'caballo.' My favorite gaucho would sweep me on to his saddle and gallop across the Pampas. In Kathmandu I took riding lessons from a Ghurka colonel. When people ask me if I ride English or Western I say I ride Ghurka. I continued riding in Turkey, galloping across the Anatolian Steppes fighting off wolves with a twig I used as a riding crop. For ten years I bred, trained and sold Peruvian horses in the Shenandoah Valley. Now I run a herd of 20 horses in the Highlands of Chiapas. Enjoy these photos of my 'family.'

Flores Silvestres/Wildflowers

November is wildflower season at Posada Escondida. We are at the end of the Monsoon Season and the land responds with an explosion of flowers. The flowers attract thousands of hummingbirds, butterflies and bees. Honey production increases exponentially at our conservation hives on the ranch. It is a time of abundance which we celebrate with prayers of thanksgiving.

El Jardin de Navidad/The Christmas Garden

In Spanish, the word for Poinsettia is Noche Buena. This year Mexico is selling the most beautiful Noche Buena I have ever seen. Since Noche Buena is my birth flower, I was inspired to plant a plethora of of these beautiful flowers in my garden. The Noche Buena has transformed my garden into a Christmas paradise. Enjoy the latest photos of my garden.

The Chiapas Sport Horse

For the last 8 years I have been breeding my Arabian stallion, Sultan, to the local Criollo mares. The result is a strong, beautiful breed I call the Chiapas Sport Horse. Sultan's babies are perfect for the rocky mountain terrain here in the Highlands of Chiapas. These horses are tough with high endurance. They are calm, sweet and take good care of their riders. The following photos are a training session of Cometa, one of my most promising colts.