CALIFORNIA Charles, Camilla attend services

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, attended Sunday services in a tiny rural church near San Francisco before an evening of theater in the city as they continued the eclectic Californian half of their U.S. tour.
The prince and the Duchess of Cornwall were watched by several perching turkey vultures -- and a large pack of journalists -- as they arrived at St. Columba's Episcopal church in Inverness, about 40 miles north of San Francisco.
"You're still here," Charles said wryly to the reporters, photographers and camera crews who are following the couple's first overseas tour since they married in April.
Amid fog and drizzle, The Rev. Tom Brindley welcomed the couple to the rustic wooden church, set within a redwood-shaded former mansion on a hill overlooking Tomales Bay.
They sat on simple wooden pews beneath the chapel's vaulted redwood ceiling for the hourlong service, staying afterward to chat and pose for photographs with some of the 70 parishioners.
Charles' Clarence House office said that, weather allowing, the couple planned to spend the afternoon picnicking and painting amid the area's rugged hills and seashore. The prince is an accomplished amateur watercolorist, and the duchess also paints as a hobby.
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