Infrared observations of hot massive stars and their environments provide a
detailed picture of mass loss histories, dust formation, and dynamical
interactions with the local stellar medium that can be unique to the thermal
regime. We have acquired new infrared spectroscopy and imaging with the
sensitive instruments onboard the Spitzer
Space Telescope in guaranteed and open time programs comprised of some of the
best known examples of hot stars with circumstellar nebulae, supplementing with
unpublished Infrared Space Observatory spectroscopy. Here wepresent highlights
of our work on the environment around the extreme P Cygni-type star HDE316285,
providing some defining characteristics of the star's evolution and
interactions with the ISM at unprecented detail in the infrared.