On October 3, 2016, I caught the crescent Moon and Venus in the evening sky near the naked-eye double star α Librae; Venus is just beginning its evening
apparition, still hugging the western horizon with a still-modest elongation from the Sun.  It will soar to an excellent height above the western horizon
by next February and go through its most favorable inferior conjunction in March 2017.  Unannotated image, Ecliptic annotated