As always, thanks much for your time to comment and lend me your thoughts on this. The feedback is invaluable to me.
I am glad that for the most part it seems to have gone over well and works. I feel the same. Although, I agree with Mike in that ultimately the border overhang on the top feels cramped and heavy and almost like a wide frame coming down from top. I could not see any other way to include this writing and the scene and was stuck with it I guess you can say.
The writing was brought out a bit more than it was originally, and I guess a bit more tweaking is possible but I would like it to remain subtle, sort of an after thought or something to be discovered after looking a little bit.
This was two exposures layered together. The first was exposed for the landscape scene, and the second exposed more for the overhang/writing. I then layered it and revealed the better exposed writing in afterwards. I could have shot and used fill flash to hit it, but at the time the two exposures was possible as I had tripod and seemed to be the best choice in proving more flexibility.
btw, Mike, I think I may try playing with increasing the amount of sign at the top, although I'm not sure that will help it. Perhaps this one may rely heavily on presentation with say a large white or cream matte. I'll have to experiment.
Thanks again for the feedback