Specialty Gardening: Would this be a suitable sub for pine bark fines?, 1 by grrrlgeek

grrrlgeek wrote:
It's too bad hardwood won't work--they have bags that actually say hardwood fines right on them, but when I ask about pine, they look at me like I'm speaking some obscure ancient dialect.

Here's what I found so far, how does this look? It doesn't look very composted and it's a little big but I have a set of those Japanese "gardening filters" I got from a bonsai supplier I could use on it if necessary (I love those things). The biggish stuff can be put out for mulch.