The arms-length quality of modern still life has compelled my close scrutiny for many years. Given that influence, I brought to the genre what I've recently discovered by "painting with paper" from direct observation. For a collage interpretation, I composed a tabletop grouping from raw material, rather than assemble a conventional montage of found images. It was created on top of a canvas I painted fifty years ago. The eponymous paper blossoms were crafted "en plein air" in a local flower garden. The embedded "still life within a still life" was produced from a setup of actual objects. I relied on my photo reference of personally meaningful items for the rest of the subject matter. Collage ingredients include colored papers for printing, wallpaper, dust jackets, ruined book parts, tissue, reclaimed tea bags, string, and a dried leaf, plus minimal use of walnut juice, burnt coffee, tinted paste, and marker-ink edging. Adhesives include wheat paste, acrylic matte medium, and white glue.