The faint sound of children giggling as they run from the playground and splash into their pool; the delicious scent of hot dogs and marshmallows roasting over an open fire; the feeling of a gentle breeze moving across the yard.

Once the ground was built-up into a hillside, Frazer worked with Land and Stone to bring in granite boulders to build John his waterfall. “We had one-hundred-and-twenty tons of granite, and we only used sixty tons,” Frazer says of their boulder selection process. “We only wanted the cream of the...

Photography by Sarah J. Dills