In 2010, Venus presents to us one of her "January to October" apparitions, which means she begins the year at superior conjunction, moves out to a relatively high evening elevation, then as she moves back down the ecliptic, increasing in elongation but decreasing in altitude, ending in a very southerly passage in front of the Sun (inferior conjunction).  At this part of the apparition, Venus shows moderately high in the evening near Castor and Pollux.