I'm definitely not into the border. I like this much more as a painting than as a photograph, and so it seems like most of the weight is carried by some sort of plugin. I could certainly be wrong, but that's just what I get from the image.
The red, white, and blue is kinda going against the spirit of the challenge, and you'll probably get lots of "not the water drop thing again" comments (I know that I did when I tried it), but I like the pic.