Venus-Mercury converge

It was too cold to do this right, and I was a few days past the peak of this astronomical event, but I at least captured an inkling of what had been a magical convergence of Venus (the bright "star" just above the treetops at the center of the photo) and Mercury, which is barely visible below the bright planet and to its right, almost in the trees. At their closest approach to each other, the two planets were almost merged, from our viewpoint, but I missed the chance to photograph them, and, tonight, I knew I had a race against time to capture them before Mercury faded into the twilight. In my haste, I wasn't able to even affix the Nikon to an old tripod I had lying around, so I used it as a monopod, braced myself against the windchill, set the shutter for about a two-second exposure, and shot, hoping for the best. Next convergence, I'm going to do a better job.