Dave:
Those are beautiful photographs! Given the idyllic setting in which you live, you don't need a pond. Even so, if you have a spring on your property, it should be possible to construct a pond to your liking. Otherwise, if your aquifer is shallow enough, you might still be able to consruct a pond in a suitable location and maintain it by a dedicated water well and an automatic pump. My grandfather did much the same thing years ago on the family farm back in Oklahoma, using a windmill to operate his well pump.
The old man was clever by any standard. Finding that he had a dependable spring on his homesteaded land, he built his house right on top of the thing and had "running" water in his kitchen long before indoor plumbing was commonplace. He also built a large cistern beside the house in which he collected and stored rainwater from the roof. That gave him a backup water supply even in times of drought when he might see his his spring run dry and his well water become murky.
He also dug a combination "root" and storm cellar in the back yard. In the wintertime, he would cut blocks of ice from the pond, drag them to the cellar by horse-drawn sled, and stack them around the walls. The ice would last until well into the summer months and provide a passable form of "cold storage" for foodstuffs.
I often think how he would marvel at many of the everyday conveniences which we take for granted these days.
