Could you post a picture from the back showing the house?

Will do, once it stops raining here!
Forgot to add, that we’re in climate zone 3B.

Thank you callirhoe, here are some more photos, with the house included.

How about a dry stream bed starting at the vanishing point of your stepping stones and meandering along that same arc? Then develop a pathway adjacent to it, with native shrubs and grasses along the outer edge?