The moon is never quite the same from night to night, and for that matter from month to month. In the summer, the moon is lower down in the sky and comes up later in the evening. Then as winter approaches, it moves back to a higher arc in the sky, and around the full moon it complements the advancing darkness of winter by moving higher in the sky to more fully illuminate the longer night when the sun is below the horizon.

It helps and seems to complement the darker days of Fall and Winter with the dim, but still useful light. The moon is in "waning gibbous" mode as of now, so it is still up in the sky, a little more than half full right now, casting a dim glow over the late night landscape. Sometimes we come into the office in the middle of the night, and we can see the reflection of the moonlight across the outer walls, which are white.

Wikipedia even has a short article on the Hunter's Moon, last week's named lunar event, which according to them is the next successive full moon after the Harvest Moon, though we heard a meteorologist say that they were both the same thing.

This picture came out a little oddly with the leaves of a nearby oak tree seeming to cradle the moon in its branches.