It was just twilight fifteen minutes ago when I took this picture. There's a very short time period at twilight when it is easiest to take a picture of the moon and get some sky or earthbound objects around it. I was lucky to get a decent shot of the trees in our back yard and of the Moon in its first quarter.

Nonetheless, it is true: the moon doesn't change much from month to month. Despite Juliet's "swear not by the inconstant Moon..."