Many consider cedar etc. as allelopathic. If your not familiar with the term you may want to look at this article http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/hs186. Until recently I would not use cedar chips at all because they come with complications such as will my apples get apple-cedar rust? are they mildly toxic? etc.. One of the latest papers published suggests the wood chips from cedars are in fact not allelopathic. http://www.puyallup.wsu.edu/~linda%20chalker-scott/horticultural%20myths_files/Myths/Allelopathic%20wood%20chips.pdf . In some cases certain plants are affected by allelopathic plants and others are not https://pubs.ext.vt.edu/430/430-021/430-021_pdf.pdf. Either wood chips should be fine.

It is not like Ma Nature is just sitting in the sky going, "oh some bare soil, I am putting weeds here." Weeds come from seeds. Most people let the weeds go for many years. Some weed seeds last for many years like even 60 years. If you don't have weed seeds in your soil, the only weeds you will get are ones that are blown in by the wind or brought in by birds. When you compost weeds with seeds you just add a lot of weed seeds right back again to your soil. When you let the weeds go to seed it is just the same as composting them or worse even. It only takes two weeks or less of inattention to weeding to cause weeds to seed. Once the soil is filled with weed seeds it is going be nearly impossible to remove them all. Even you mulch with heavy wood the seeds will break through that at some point. If you buy some compost that is not sterile it could have weed seeds. Weeds also come from your neighbors yard under your fence into your yard. It takes never ending work to keep weeds under control.

I could use a little assistance posting pics?

Can you post a larger image? The dramatic lights & shadows, plus the small image size, make it difficult to see detail.