Hmm. I was regularly accused of that on Ask and I suppose some of my answers to questions are essayesque in nature. They give me the chance to invent words like essayesque. >:-).

But five pages? It'd have to be a pretty interesting subject before I got that far into it; maybe something like the evolution … Read more

Oh essays are quite fun. The only essay I hated to do was over a book that the class had to read. If it was research I would come up with all the statistics.

My answer is leaves changing color. My thinking is that they change from green into bright colors of red, orange, and yellow, like fire, people love to see fall colors, the colder it gets the brighter the leaves, and then they die when Winter comes!