The plant in the photo is either a palm or a cycad-- it's hard to say which without seeing more of it-- but it does scream "tropical!"

They're clearly visible when Joe is pulling his boat out of the harbor

Thank you!  I'll have to watch for that.  With Michael T. Weiss on the screen, I'm surprised I even recognized San Pedro much less notice any trees.  Thanks again.

I never noticed that each time the page was refreshed the symbols next to the numbers changed.

But since only 9 of the numbers have changing symbols, it's not something that's easily noticed.  The rows are even arranged so that none of those fall in the top and bottom rows.  It's a slick trick. 

You're welcome, but I was just channeling Raholt's explanation from when this came up before on the forums. 

Raholt figured it out a while back.

Of all the possible numbers you can begin with, there's a limited number of answers that can result from the calculation, and actually the answer will always be a multiple of 9.  Though the symbols appear to be random, each time you refresh the page by clicking the crystal ball, the symbols next to the multiples of 9 (9, 18, 27, etc.) will become a new symbol that they'll all share.

In other words, you click the crystal ball and all multiples of 9 might then have a book next to them.  Next time, they all might have a star next to them, and so on.

War, Shadows, and The Night Stalker:
A Conversation with Dan Curtis--

D.C. Seminar at MT&R / L.A.

LOL, oops.  I'll have to fix that.

She knows of what she speaks.  I took a severe cold med and shouldn't be trusted with a keyboard.