Mt. Vernon bliss

What a wonderful day this was.  My son had just completed his induction into the Foreign Service.  My mother and I were invited to the ceremony and spent a long weekend with my son before he was leave for his first assignment in Ireland.  We decided to forgo D.C. and travel a bit further out and visit the beautiful Mt. Vernon estate. 

I am entering this into two challenges:

Challenge me happy was with the color palette
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http://challengemehappy.wordpress.com/2013/04/01/challenge-43/

Pamela's world of scrap for the sketch. I flipped it to the other side

http://pamelasworldofscrap.blogspot.com/2013/04/sketch-233-challenge.html